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CONTAINING AN ARaUMENT 



FOR THE 



TEMPERANCE BALLOT FOR WOMAN, 



£ND HOW TO OBTAIN IT, AS A MEANS OP 



HOME PROTECTION; 



ALSO 



mitmm and flak of work m state m local w. c, t. 



By FRANCES E. WILLARD, 

Pbesiden't of Iujdjois W. C. T. U. 

PRICE IS CEr^TS. 



PTIDLtSSED AT "THE INDEPEKDEN2 " OFFICE, 

BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 

1879. 



Constltistkii for a Local W. C. T. U. 



NAME. 

Article 1. This organization shall be known as the Woman's Christian Temperance 
Union, of , auxiliary to the W. C. T. U. of the State of . 

OBJECT. 

Art. 2. It shall be the object of this organization to plan and carry forward measures 
■'vhich will result, with the blessing of God, in the suppression of intemperance in our 
midst, and in the prohibition of the liquor traffic. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Art. 3. Any woman may become a member of this organization by signing the Con- 
stitution, pledging herself to do all in her power for the advancement of the temperance 
work, and by the payment of one cent per week or fifty cents per year into the treasury. 
She will also subscribe to the following 

PLEDGE. 

I, the undersigned, hereby promise: 1. That, with God's help, I will abstain from all 
intoxicating liquors as a beverage, including wine, beer, and cider; 2, that I will not make, 
sell, or give them away for such use; 3, that I will not allow my premises, nor any prem- 
ises subject to my control, to be employed for their manufacture, sale, or use as a bever- 
age; 4, that I will earnestly endeavor by all honorable means to promote the cause of 
TEMPERANCE. 

Gentlemen become honorary members by payment of One Dollar a year. 

OFFICERS. 

Art. 4. The officers qf this organization shall be a. President, a Vice-Presideiit from 
each church, a Corresponding Secretary, Recording Secretary, and Treasurer, who, to- 
gether with the Chairmen of Standing Committees, shall constitute an Executive Com- 
mittee. 

DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 

Art. 5. — Section 1. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings of 
the organization and supervise its general interests. 

Sec. 2.- It shall be the duty of each Vice-President to preside in her turn in the absence 
of the President and to enlist the women of her own church in the work. The Vice- 
Presidents shall assist in managing the affairs of the organization. 

See. 3. It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secretary to conduct the correspond- 
ence of the organization and report to the Corresponding Secretary of the State Union the 
1st of March and September (having first submitted her report to the local organization), 
giving such items of general interest as will enable the State Secretary to judge correctly 
of the condition of the organization. 

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Recording Secretary to keep a record of the pro- 
ceedings of the organization and notify the public of its meetings. 

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to collect the one cent per week or fifty 
cents per year membership dues, and forward one-half of the same to the Treasurer of the 
State Union the 1st of March, June, September, and December. She shall also hold all 
other moneys collected for the use of the organization, keeping an exact book account and 
making a quarterly report of the same. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

The Executive Committee will hold a meeting each week, at which plans of work 
are to be discussed and determined and sub-committees appointed to carry them out. 
Reports are to be made to the Union at its monthly meeting. 

TIME OF MEETING. 

Art. 6. The meetings of the organization shall be held on — :^ ■. — • — of ejich 

month, and shall be conducted in such a manner as the Executive Committee shall from 
time to time determine. 

ANNUAL MEETING. 

Art. 7. The annual meeting shall be held on the days of the week of 

September, at which time the officers shall be elected for the ensuing year. 

AMENDMENTS. 

Art. 8. Desired amendments to this Constitution must be presented in writing, fo 
the acceptance of the Local Union at its regular sessions. 






CONTAININQ AN ARGUMENT 



FOR THE 



TEMPERAT^CE BALLOT FOR WOMAl^, 



iilTD HOW TO OBTAIN IT, AS A ^lEANS OF 



HOME PROTECTION; 



ALSO 



C02ISIIIIITI017 m FLAN OF mU M STATE AHB LOCAL W. C. T. UNIONS. 



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By FRANCES E. WILLARD, 

Peesident of Iixxnois W. C. T. U. 

FJRIOE IS CEISTTS. 



31 /C 



PUBLISHED AT '*TBE INDEPENBENr* OFFICE, 

BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 

1879. 






DEDICATED 



TO THE 



BELOVED, BRAVE, AND STEADFAST, 

WHOSE BATTLE-CRY HAS EVER BEEN : 

^'€))t $u)ori> of tlje Corii anh of (Siifon.** 



tlutei-ed according to Act of Congress, In the year 1879, by Frances K Willajbd, 
in the Office of the Librarian or Congress, at Washington. 



INDEX. 



Page. 

Explanatory 4 

Home Protectiox. What, why, and where it is. . 5 

About Petitions 5 

Days of Prayer 5 

Home Protection (Fourth of July Address at 

Woodstock, Conu., 1879) 6 

Plahs for Petition Work 13 

Forms of Documents for a Home PROTEcTfON Cam- 
paign 15 

Plan for Local Campaign to Carry No-licexse. . . 15 

Other Methods of Intluencino Local Legislation 17 
WosrEN's Local Petition for the Temperance 

Ballot 17 

Petition Against Games, Screens, etc. in 

Saloons 17 

Petition to Local Officers for Enforcement of 

Law 17 

Petitions for Use in Conservative Communities. 18 

Attendance at Primaries 18 

Plan to Secure Votes of Women on School 

Questions 18 

Registration by W. C. T. U 18 

Petitions CoNCER^^NG Drunken Legislators 19 

Petition for a Commission of Inquhiy 19 

General Dieeciioss for Circulating Petitions.. 19 



Page:. 

Petitions to Temperance People 19 

The Iron-clad Pledge. 20 

Plan for a Woman's District or County Conven- 
tion 20 

Call for a Woman's Temperance Convention 21 

Programme OF " " " 21 

Temperance Tabernacles 21 

How to Make Local W, C. T. U. Meetings Inter- 
esting 22 

List of Best Temperance Papers 22 

References 23 

Arguments for Local Option 23 

How TO Interest a State or Local W. C. T. U. 

IN Home Protection 2(5 

Objections to the Movement 26 

Home Protection Petition op Illinois 27 

Form to be placed on Back of the Petition 28 

Form of Home Protection Bill 29 

History of the Home Protection Petition in 

Illinois ^^ 

Home Protection in Massachusetts 30 

The Hinds Biix. '^ 

Home Protection Circular of Omo 81 

Home Protection Hymn 32 

Prohibition Literature. 32 



EXPLANATORY.- 



**What is your W. C. T. U. doing?" is my most natural question to the dear women 
who welcome me on almost each new day to some new locality. 

"Well, yfe—Siie— waiting" is the very frequent answer, quickly followed by the 
earnest inquiry: "What can be done?" 

We only know what we have lived; and in the last five years I have witnessed a 
cheering march of public opinion along a road always open to our feet, but not mapped 
upon our usual plans of the campaign as clearly as I am convinced it ought to be. 

The Right of Petition, its purpose and its power, will be treated of, in the pages 
that follow, with emphatic but not exclusive reference to the temperance ballot for 

woman. 

We want that ballot because the liquor traffic is entrenched in law, and law grows 
out of the will of majorities, and majorities of women are against the liquor traffic. 
But as steam can be applied to locomotion only through an engine, and as electricity can 
be utilized only through a battery, so, in a Republic, we can condense the opinion of this 
majority of women into law only through the magical little paper which falls 

"As snowflakes fall upon the sod ; 
But executes a freeman's will 
As lightnings do the will of God." 

Some of our sisters have feared lest attention to this branch of work might inter- 
fere with our holding Gospel meetings, circulating temperance literature, and training the 
children to right habits. But we invite comparison between states active in the petition 
battle for the temperance vote and those which have excluded this method of work, and 
claim that activity along this line would be an incalculable blessing to communities where, 
though the legalized dram-shop never closes its doors and politicians work steadily to ad- 

Vance its interests, our W. C. T. Unions are " waiting." 

F. E. W. 

Chicago, September, 1879. 



HOME PROTECTION. 



WHAT, WHY, AND WHERE IT IS. 

" Home Pkotection" is the general name 
given to a movement already endorsed bj' 
the W. C. T. Unions of eight states, the 
object of which is to secure for all women 
above the age of twenty-one years the bal- 
lot as one means for the protection of their ^ 
homes from the devastation caused by the ' 
legalized traffic in strong drink. 

In Illinois and ^Massachusetts the ballot 
on the single question of license is all that 
has been asked; but Indiana, Iowa, and 
Minnesota ask for the ballot in general; 
Avhile Ohio desires it "on all temperance 
questions." Maine and Rhode Island have 
both endorsed the Illinois phase of the 
movement, though the women of Maine 
(where prohibitory law is in full force) 
did this rather as a token of sympathy than 
with a view to active work. Several other 
states have signified their purpose to take 
up tlie new method ere long. It will be 
seen that, while the reason for seeking this 
added weapon in women's hands is in each 
case that it nnay he used ngainst the rum 
poirer, in defense of Ilome, there is much lat- 
itude in the methods by which it is sought, 
as aUo in the extent to which the idea is 
carried out and in the progress which dif- 
ferent states have made. Kone has as yet 
achieved its purpose; but Massachusetts se- 
cured a majority of one in the Senate last 
winter and Illinois lacked one of a majority 
in the House (two-thirds being essential to 
success). Both are making active prepara- 
tions for the second campaign; and, with 
tlie same end in view, Ohio and other states 
are also doing preparatory work. 



ABOUT PETITIONS. 

Persons of small though tfulness are 
wont to say, when our petitions are not 
granted: "How much time and money 
have been lost." But they forget the reflex 
influence of such work; the entire change 
in public sentiment which a thorough 
canvass has often wrought in a locality 
and the indirect results achieved. If we 
mean that crowds shall gather, there must 
be something for them to rally around, and a 
l^etition to which their signatures are sought 
affords this nucleus. Our Home Protection 
campaign in Illinois has crystallized the 
thoughts of the people around the idea of 
a laio against the liquor traffic. Sermons 
and speeches b}' the score have reached and 
convinced them by the thousand, and the 
louder voice of the press, coming with 
cogent and oft-repeated arguments, has 
changed the views of tens of thousands. 
The quiet house-to-house canvass of an 
army of women who could not speak in 
public has brought home to the fireside 
and the wife and mother, with little time to 
read, reasons enforced by practical illustra- 
tions taken from every-day life; and thus 
hosts of friends for woman's temperance 



ballot have been raised up where all were 
passive and inert before. Of the b^JJi towns 
that voted on the question of license while 
our campaign was in progress, (j4o deelaicd 
for no license — a much larger number tlian 
ever before; and experienced men say it was 
largely due to the Home Protection Petition 
work of the W. C. T. Unions. It has aLso re- 
acted most favorably on all departments of 
our work, greatly extending the knowledge; 
of our methods, multiplying our organiza- 
tions, and bringing out an army of helper.s 
of whom we had not known before. 

Similar results would attend the circula- 
tion of a petition to the county or munici- 
pal authorities on any phase of our mani- 
fold cause. Let us remember tliat, in giv- 
ing prominence to this branch of work, we 
are but transferHng the crusade from the sa- 
loon to tlie sources whence the saloon derives its 
guaranties and safeguards. Surely, this 
does not change our work from sacred to 
secular! Surely, that is a short-sighted view 
which says : "It was womanly to plead with 
saloon-keepers not to sell; but it is un- 
Avomanly to plead with law-makers not to 
legalize the sale and to give us power to pre- 
vent it." No wonder the Ohio Crusaders, 
who have spent hours in the stifling atmos- 
phere of the saloons, do not deem it indeli- 
cate to enter airy council-rooms and stately 
legislative halls; and they, like the W. C, 
T."U. of Illinois, have enlisted for a seven 
years' campaign, or one of fourteen years, 
if need be, not expecting immediate suc- 
cess, but going forth in the crusade spirit 
of dependence upon God and consecration 
to his service. "The letter killcth; but 
the spirit givethlife." Methods constantly 
change, but motives must have their spring 
in everlasting truth and righteousness. 



DAYS OF PRAYER. 
The "Home Protection Crusade" for 
woman's temperance ballot is the natural 
successor of the Temperance Crusade of 
1873-4, and simply changes its objective 
point. If rightly understood and faithfully 
pursued, the new movement will do much 
toward fulfilling the sacred prophecies of its 
divine forerunner. Then let all our work 
be begun, continued, and ended in prayer. 
Let every document prepared or sent out, 
every address delivered, every name asked 
for the petition be accompanied by breath- 
ings of the soul to God for a right'spirit in 
ourselves and a heavenly blessing on our 
endeavor. Let not the noon-hour of unitod 
prayer for our W. C. T. Unions and their 
work be overlooked, and let stated days of 
prayer be appointed by the officers of the 
State Union, at the opening of the campaign, 
and on the day when the committee present 
the petition to the Legislature. Evermore, as 
our growing hosts move forward, may our 
watchword be : 

" Pravpr Is the Christian's ^^tal breath 
The* Christian's native air." 



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"HOME PROTECTION." 

[ForrKTH OF July Address at " The Independent's ' 
Celebration.] 



KING MAJORITY. 

Once more will the tiir>e-lioiiored decla- 
ration be made to-day, by a thousand Fourth 
of July orators, that "the Americans are a 
free people." But I insist that we are gov- 
erned by the most powerful king whose 
iron rule ever determined the policy, mold- 
ed the institutions, or controlled the des- 
tinies of a great nation. 

So pervasive is his influence that it pene- 
trates to the most obscure and distant 
hamlet with the same readiness, and there 
wields the same potency as in his empire's 
capital ; nay (with reverence be it said), he is 
like Deity in that his actual presence is co- 
extensive with his vast domain. Our legis- 
latures are his playthings, our congressmen 
his puppets, and oar honored President the 
latest child of his adoption. We do not 
often call him by his name, this potentate 
of million hands and myriad voices; but. 
to my thinking, nothing is to day so vital to 
America as that we become better ac- 
quainted with our ruler. Let rae then pre- 
sent to your thought his Majestic Highness 
King Majority, Sovereign Ruler of these 
United States. 

KING AliCOHOL. 

Permit me now to introduce a different 
diaraoter, who comes to the court of King 
Majority as chief ambassador from the em- 
pire of his Satanic Majesty. Behold! I 
show you the skeleton at our patriotic ban- 
quet. It has a skull with straightened fore- 
head arnd sickening smile; but bedecked 
with wreaths of vine, clusters of grape, and 
heads of golden grain — King Alcohol, pres- 
ent at court in radiant disguise. With a 
foaming beer-mug at his lips, he drinks the 
hoalth of King Majority; and, placing at 
his feet a chest of gold labeled " Internal 
Revenue," he desireth conditions of peace. 

THE question. 

Behold in these two figures the bewildering 
danger and the ineffable hope of the Repub- 
lic ! How can we rouse the stolid giant, King 
Majority? How light in those sleepy eyes the 
fires of a holy and relentless purpose? How 
nerve once more, with the resistless force 
thnt smote African slavery to death, the 
mighty sinews of the Republj>'.«i sleeping 
king? 

AN ANSWER. 

How? Only by " sweet reasonableness "; 
only by ceaseless persuasion; only by noble 
examples; only by honest hard work based 
upon fervent and effectual prayer. 

Human heads and hearts are much 
alike. I remember that the great Temper- 
ance Crusade of 1874 found me with a 
beer keg in my cellar, a fatal haziness in 
ray opinions, and a blighting indifference to 
the temperance reform upon my will. But 
how did its intense pathos melt my heart; 
how did its mighty logic tune the lax cords 
of opinion to concert pitch; how did its 



miracle of prayer bring thousands to their 
knees, crying: "Lord, what wouldst thou have 
me to do?" For myself, I could never be the 
same after that. As a woman, a patriot, a 
Christian, my heart is fixed in deathless 
enmity to all that can intoxicate. The same 
influences which so transformed one brain 
and heart are steadily at work to-day in a 
thousand quiet ways. 

The sober second thought of the Woman's 
Temperance Crusade was organization. The 
voice of God called to them from the lips 
of his prophet: "Make a chain, for tha land 
is full of bloody crimes and the city is 
full of violence." And so in every town 
and village we are forming these chains of 
light and of loving helpfulness, which 
we call "Women's Christian Temperance 
Unions." We have already twen- ty-three 
states organized, with thousands of local 
auxiliaries. Every day brings fresh acces- 
sions of women, translated out of the pas- 
sive and into the active voice on this great 
question of the protection of their homes. 
Of the fifty-four thousand papers published 
in this country eight thousand have temper- 
ance facts and figures regularly provided by 
members of our societies. Temperance litera- 
ture is being circulated; Our tlnion,t]iQ of^- 
cial organ of the Women's National Temper- 
ance Society, has a large subscription list ; Sab- 
bath-schools are adopting our plans of tem- 
perance instruction ; and hundreds of juve- 
nile societies are inscribing on their banners: 
"Tremble, King Alcohol! We shall grow 
up." Friendly inns and temperance reading- 
rooms are multiplying; Gospel meetings 
conducted by women are reaching the 
drinking class in hundreds of communities ; 
the Red and Blue Ribbon Movements have 
attained magnificent proportions; and all 
this many-sided work is fast concentrating 
its influence to place the ballot in tbe 
hand of woman, and thus capture for the 
greatest of reforms old King Majority. 
Magnificent is the spectacle of these new 
forces now rallying to the fray. Side by 
side with the 500,000 men whose united 
energies are expended in making and selling 
strong drink, we are working day by day. 
While they brew beer we are brewing 
public sentim.ent; while they distill whisky 
we are distilling facts; while they rectify 
brandy we are rectifying political constitu- 
encies; and ere long their fuming tide of 
intoxicating liquor shall be met and driven 
back by the overwhelming flood of enlight- 
ened sentiment and divinely aroused energy. 

ortection. — "prohibition a failure." 

"To be sure. King Majority gave prohi- 
bition to Maine; but prohibition doesn't 
prohibit," interrupts Sir Sapient, whose re- 
mark furnishes a striking illustration of the 
power of the human mind to resist knowl- 
edge. Just take the spyglass of observa- 
tion, and behold from Kittery to Calais the 
gleaming refutation of your error. 

Less than thirty years ago they had 
four hundred open hotel bars and 
ten miles of saloons. To-day Dr. Hamlin, 
of Constantinople, tells us that, comingl" 
home, after forty years' absence, he finds, hisf 



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native state thorouglily renovated from the 
liquor traffic. Gen. JSeal Dow testifies 
that the law has absolutely driven the sale 
of strong drink out of all rural districts; 
and in the larger towns, instead of the free, 
open sale of former years, it is crowded into 
secret places, kept by the lowest class of for- 
eigners. Ex-Go vs. Dingley and Perham and 
Senator Blaine and Representative Frye de- 
clare that it is as well enforced as the law 
against stealing ; and even sensational journal- 
ists have not told us that thieves flourish in 
the Pine Tree State. Mr. Renter, of Boston, 
president of the National Brewers' Conven- 
tion, held in St. Louis four weeks ago, says: 
"Formerly Maine produced nearly ten 
thousand barrels of beer annually; but this 
has fallen to seven barrels, in consequence 
of the local enforcement of prohibitory 
law." Surely, this gentleman should be 
considered as good authority on this subject 
as a convict is of the strength of his prison- 
bars 1 

MAINE AN EXCEPTION. 

But you say ' ' Maine is different from any 
other state." Why so? Are not its citizens 
of like passions with other men? Turn 
your glass upon a panorama of Maine as it 
was in former days. See yonder stalwart 
workers in the harvest-field paying vigor- 
ous addresses to the little brown jug; ob- 
serve its ubiquitous presence at the logging 
bee, the "raising," the wedding, and the 
funeral ; see it pass from lip to lip around 
the fireside circle ; observe the Gospel min- 
ister refreshing himself from the demijohn 
of his parishioner and host ; and be assured 
that within the memory of men now living 
these were every-day events. I have this 
testimony from the most honored resi- 
dents of Maine, whose recitals involved 
the words "all of which I saw and part 
of which I Avas." But, as gallant Neal 
Dow hath it, "Maine was sown knee-deep 
with temperance literature before we reaped 
the harvest of prohibition." Let us note the 
evolutioii of this seed-planting. Land-own- 
ers found that two-thirds of their taxes result- 
ed from the liquor traffic (largely in cost of 
prosecuting criminals and taking care of lu- 
natics and paupers); so they concluded that 
legalizing saloons for the sake of the rev- 
enue was penny wisdom and pound foolish- 
ness. Business men discovered that the 
liquor traffic is a pirate on the high seas 
of trade, that the more the grog-shop is 
patronized the fewer customers there are 
for flour and fuel, boots, shoes, and clothes; 
and so, in self-defense, they declared for 
prohibition. Church people found that 
jfifteen times as much money went to the 
dram-shop as to the church, and that 
the teachings of the one more than 
offset those of the other with the young 
men of the state; so they perceived 
they could not conscientiously ally them- 
selves with the liquor traffic by their votes. 
Those interested in education learned that 
enough money was swallowed in drinks 
that deteriorate the brain, to furnish a 
schoolhouse for every fifty boys and girls, 
and to set over them teachers of the highest 
culture ; and they saw it was unreasonable 



to defend the liquor traffic. In short, the 
majority came to believe that, between the 
upper and nether mill-stones of starving out 
saloons, on the one hand, and voting them 
out. on the other, they could be pounded to 
death; and they have so pounded them. 
The question of selling as a beverage the 
drinks which we know by centuries of 
demonstration will so craze men that they 
will commit every crime and show the sub- 
tlest cruelty to those they love the best, is 
not today in Maine an open question with 
either party, any more than trial by jury or 
imprisonment for theft. True, the people 
had a thirty years' war before the declara- 
tion of this blessed peace; but what are 
thirty years when crowned at last by the 
surrender of King Alcohol to King Ma- 
jority? 

KEY TO THE POSITION. 

" Ah! but," pursues our doubting friend, 
"Maine is a peculiar state, in this : it has 
few foreigners, with their traditions of whis- 
ky and of beer." 

I grant you, there we are at disadvantage. 
But go with me to the Cunard wharves of 
Boston and to Castle Garden of New York, 
and, as the long procession of emigrants steps 
across the gangway, you will find three times 
as many men as women. How can we offset 
their vote for free liquor, on Sundays and all 
days? Surely, the answer to this question is 
not far to seek. Strengthen the sinews of 
old King Majority, by counting in the home 
vote to offset that of Hamburg and of Cork, 
and let American customs survive by util- 
izing (at the point where by the correlation 
of governmental forces "opinion" passes 
into "law") the opinion of those gentle 
" natives " who are the necessary and tender 
guardians of the home, of tempted manhood 
and untaught little children. 

Hands which have just put aside the beer- 
mug, the decanter, and the greasy pack of 
cards are casting ballots which undermine 
our Sabbaths, license social crimes that shall 
be nameless, and open 250,000 dram-shops in 
the shadow of the church and public school. 
I solemnly call upon my countrymen to re- 
lease those other hands, familiar with the 
pages of the Book of God, busied with 
sacred duties of the home and gracious 
deeds of charity, that they may drop in those 
whiter ballots,* which, as God lives, alone 
can save the state! 

THE WOMEN OF ILLINOIS. 

Kind friends, I am not theorizing. I 
speak that I do know and testif}' wliat I 
have seen. Out on the Illinois prairies we 
have resolved to expend on voters the work 
at first bestowed upon saloon-keepers. We 
have transferred the scene of our crrsade 
from the dram-shop to the council-room of 
the municipal authorities, whence the dram- 
shop derives its guaranties ajul safeguards. 
Nay, more. The bitter argument of de- 
feat led us to trace the tawny, seething, 
foaming tide of beer and whisky to its 
^ource;"and there we found it surging forth 
from the stately capitol of Illinois, with its 
proud dome and flag of stripes and stars. 
So we have made that capitol the center of 



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our operations; and last winter, as one 
among the many branches of our work, we 
gathered up 175,000 names of Illinois's best 
men and women (80,000 being the names of 
voters), who asked the legislature for a law 
giving women the ballot on the temperance 
question. In prosecuting our canvass for 
these names, we sent copies of our ' ' Home 
Protection Petition " to every minister, ed- 
itor, and postmaster in the state ; also to all 
leading temperance men and women, and 
to evei:y nociet}' and corporation from which 
we had anything to hope. 

In this way our great state was per- 
meated, and in most of its towns the 
petition was brought before the people. 
The religious press was a unit in our 
favor. The reform clubs of the state, 
with ribbons blue and red, helped us 
with their usual heartiness and efficiency. 
And what shall be thought of the advance 
in public sentiment, when (as was often 
done) all the churches join on Sabbath 
night in a " Union Home Protection Meet- 
ing," and ministers of all denominations 
(Presbyterians included) conduct the open- 
ing exercises, after which a woman presents 
the religious duty of women to seek and 
men to supply the temperance ballot ; and, 
to crown all, conservative young ladies go 
up and down the aisles earnestly asking for 
signatures, and the audience unite in sing- 
ing 

" stand up, stand up for Jesus, 

Ye soldiers of the Cross ; 

Lift high His royal banner, 

It must not suffer loss." 

Friends, it means something for women of 
the churches to take this radical position. 
America has developed no movement more 
significant for good since the first dawning 
of the day we celebrate. 

The State of Indiana stands with us; 
only there the temperance women have 
worked out the problem of deliverance 
further than we, and asked the ballot on all 
questions whatsoever. They do the same 
in Minnesota and in Iowa; while at the 
East the W. C. T. U. of grand old Maine 
endorses the temperance vote, and Rhode 
Island sends to Illinois resolutions of ap- 
proval, while Massachusetts, under Mary 
A. Livermore, has declared for Home Pro- 
tection and is preparing for the fall cam- 
paign; and within a few days Ohio, the 
Crusade State, which is the mother of 
us all, has fallen into line. The most 
conservative states are Connecticut, New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York; but 
in each of these there are many brave 
women, who but bide their time for this 
same declaration, and the whole twenty- 
three states already joined in the Woman's 
National Christian Temperance Union will 
ere long clasp hands in the only work 
which can ever fulfill the glorious prophecy 
of the Crusade. History tells us that on the 
morning of December 23d, 1873, when in 
Hillsboro', Ohio, the pentecostal power fell 
on the "praying band" which first went 
forth, the leading men of that rum-cursed 
town went out from the church where their 
wives and mothers had assembled, saying: 
"We can only leave this business with the 



women and the Lord." History has repeated 
itself this winter in our Illinois crusade. 
Men have placed money in our hands to 
carry on the Home Protection work, say- 
ing: "The won 1 en of America must solve 
this problem.. Our business relations, our 
financial interests, our political affiliations 
and ambitions have tied our hands; but we 
will set yours free, that you may rid us of 
this awful curse." 

WOULD WOMEN VOTE RIGHT? 

Yet a few men and women, densely 
ignorant about this movement, have been 
heard to say: " Who knows that women 
would vote light?" I confess that nothing 
has more deeply grieved me than this ques- 
tion from the lips of Christian people. 
Have distillers, brewers, and saloon-keepers, 
then, more confidence in woman's sense and 
goodness than she has herself? They have 
a very practical method of exhibiting their 
faith. They declare war to the knife, and 
the knife to the hilt against the Home Pro- 
tection Movement. By secret circulars, by 
lobbyists and attorneys, by the ridicule 
of their newspaper organs, and threats 
of personal violence to such women of their 
families as sign our petition, they display 
their confidence in womankind. 

The only town in Illinois which sent up 
a delegation ; citizens openly to oppose our 
petition was Belleville, with its heavy 
liquor interest and ten thousand Grerman to 
three thousand American inhabitants ; and 
among our 204 legislators there were no 
other dozen men whose annoyance of the 
Home Protection Committee was so persist- 
ent and so petty as that of the senator who 
openly declared he was there to defend the 
vested interests of his Peoria constituents, 
who in 1878 produced eight million dollars' 
worth (?) of ardent spij-its. Nay, verily, 
woman's vote is the way out of our misery 
and shame, "our enemies themselves beinp- 
judges"; and none see this so clearly as 
ithe liquor dealers, whose alligator eye is 
their pocket-book, and the politicians, whose 
Achilles heel is their ambition. The women 
of the Crusade must come once more to 
judgment — not, as aforetime, with trem- 
bling lip and tearful eye; but reaching de- 
vout hands to grasp the weapon of power 
and crying with reverent voice: " The swm'd 
of the "Lord and of Gideon !" 

HOW WOMEN DO VOTE. 

But, after all, " seeing" is a large part of 
"believing" with this square-headed Yankee 
nation ; so let us seek the testimony of expe- 
ri^uce. 

Tn Kansas the law provides that the signa- 
tures of women shall be requisite to a peti- 
tion asking for a dram-shop before that boon 
shall be conferred upon any given com- 
munity. This arrangement wrought such 
mischief with the liquor dealers that they 
secured an amendment exempting large 
towns from such bondage. But in small 
towns and villages it has greatly interfered 
with the traffic, and has so educated public 
sentiment that prohibition can — with im- 
punity !— form the theme of a governor's m-f 



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augiiral, and Kansas is on the war-path for 
a law hardly less stringent than that of 
Maine. 

In Des Moines, Iowa, a few weeks since, 
as a test of popular opinion, the women 
voted on the license question ; twelve de- 
claring in favor of saloons and eight hun- 
dred against them. In Newton, Iowa, at 
an election ordered by the council, 172 men 
voted for license to 319 against — not two 
to one against it; while the women's vote 
stood one in favor to 894 against licensing 
saloons. In Kirkvillc, Mo., ten women 
favored the lirpior traffic, twenty declined 
to declare themselves, and five hundred 
wanted "no license." In our Illinois cam- 
paign, which resulted in 95,000 names of 
women who expressed their wish to vote 
asrainst saloons, not one woman in ten de- 
clined to affix her name to our petition. 

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, GERMANS, ETC. 

The attitude of the Catholic Church was 
f j-i^ndly to our petition, many priests urging 
their people to sign. Irish women, as a rule, 
gave us their names, ancT saloon-keepers' 
wives often secretly did so. Scandinavians 
were generally enthusiastic for the petition. 
Germans opposed us ; but the reply of one of 
them indicates the chivalric nature which 
will come to our aid when our invincible 
argument against beer shall be brought in 
contact with German brain and German 
conscience. He said: "If it is not the 
pledge, I will sign it. I cannot give up my 
beer; hut 1 want to help the ladies." To be 
sure, German saloon-keepers were univers- 
ally and bitterly antagonistic, and had much 
to say about ' ' women keeping inside their 
proper sphere." 

ARGUMENT FROM THE NATURE OF THE CASS. 

But the convictions which supply me with 
unalterable courage and unflagging enthusi- 
asm in the Home Protection work are not 
based upon any proof I have yet given. No 
argument is impregnable unless founded on 
the nature of things. 

The deepest instincts and the dearest in- 
terests of those who have the power to en- 
act a law must be enlisted for its enforce- 
ment before it will achieve success. For 
instance, the 15th Amendment to the Con- 
stitution of the Unjbed States is going to be 
enforced by the ballots of colored men who 
once were slaves, just so long as those men 
retain their reason and their color. By parity 
of reasoning, if you can enlist in favor of a 
local option or prohibition law the dearest 
interests of a class in the community which 
in all the ages of wine and beer and brandy 
drinking has not developed (as a class) the 
appetite for them nor formed the habit of 
their use, you will have something trust- 
worthy on which to base your law. We 
temperance people have looked over at the 
rum power very much as the soldiers of 
Israel did at Goliath of Gath. We have 
said: "He has upon his side two of the 
most deeply-rooted instincts of human na- 
tiu-e — in the dealer the appetite for gain, 
and in the drinker the appetite for stimu- 
lants — and we have nothing adequate to 
match against this frightful pair. " 



But, looking deeper, we perceive that, as 

God Has provided in Nature an antidote for 
every poison, and in the kingdom of his 
grace a compensation for every loss, so in 
human society he has ordained against King 
Alcohol, that worst foe of the social state, 
an enemy beneath whose blows he is to bite 
the dust. Take the instinct of self-protec- 
tion (and there is none more deeply seated) : 
What will be its action in woman when 
the question comes up of licensing the sale 
of a stimulant which nerves with danger- 
ous strength the arm already so much 
stronger than her own, and which at the 
same time so crazes the brain God meant to 
guide that manly arm that it strikes down 
the wife a man loves and the little children 
for whom when sober he would die ? De- 
pendent for the support of herself and 
little ones and for the maintenance of her 
home, upon the strength which alcohol mas- 
ters and the skill it renders futile, will the 
wife and mother cast her vote to open or to 
close the rum-shop door over against that 
home? 

Then there is a second instinct, so much 
higher and more sacred that I would not 
speak of it too near the first. It is as 
deep, but how high it reaches ap to- 
ward Heaven — the instinct of a mother's 
love, a wife's devotion, a sister's faithful- 
ness, a daughter's loyalty! Friends, this 
love of women's hearts was given for pur- 
poses of wider blessing to poor humanity 
than some of us have dreamed. Before 
this century shall end the rays of love 
which shine out from woman's heart shall 
no longer be, as now, divergent so far as 
the liquor traffic is concerned; but through 
that magic lens, that powerful sunglass which 
we term the ballot, they shall all converge 
their power, and burn and blaze on the 
saloon, till it shrivels up and in lurid vapors 
curls away like mist under the hot gaze of 
sunshine. Ere long our brothers, hedged 
about by temptations, even as we are by 
safeguards, shall thus match force with force ; 
shall set over against the dealer's avarice 
our timid instinct of self -protection, and 
match the drinker's love of liquor by our 
love of him. When this is done you will 
have doomed the rum power in America, 
even as youK doomed the slave power when 
you\gave the ballot to the slave. 

OBJECTIONS. — woman's INFLUENCB. 

"But women should content themselves 
with educating public sentiment," says one. 
Nay, we can shorten the process; for we 
have the sentiment all educated and stored 
away, ready for use in brain and heart. Only 
give us the opportunity to turn it to account 
where in the least time it can achieve the most ! 
Let the great guns of influence, now point- 
ing into vacancy, be swung to the level of 
benignant use and pointed on election 
day straight into the faces of the foe ! 
"No; but she should train her son to vote 
aright," suggests another. But if she could 
go along with him. and thns make one vote 
two, should we then have a superfluous 
majority in a struggle intense as this one is 
to be? And then how unequal is her com- 



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bat for the right to train Jier boy! Enter 
yonder saloon. See them gathered around 
their fiery or their foamy cups, accordijig to 
the predominance in their veins of Celtic or 
of Teuton blood. What are they talking of, 
those sovereign citizens? The times have 
changed. It is no longer tarifE or no tariff, 
resumption of specie payments, or even the 
behavior of our Southern brethren that oc- 
cupies their thought. No. Home ques- 
tions have come elbowing their way to the 
front. The child in the midst is also in the 
market-place, and they are bidding for him 
there, the politicians of the saloon. So 
skillfully will they make out the slate, so 
vigorously turn the crank of the machine, 
that, in spile of churches and temperance 
societies combined, the measures dear to 
them w ill triumph and measures dear to the 
fond mother heart will fail. Give her, at 
least, a fair chance to offset by her ballot 
the machinations which imperil her son. 

WOMEN CANNOT FIGHT. 

"But women cannot fight," you say, 
"and for every ballot cast we must tally 
with a bayonet." Pray tell us when the 
law was promulgated that we must analyze 
the vote at an election, and throw out the bal- 
lots of all men aged and decrepit, halt and 
blind? Do not let the colossal example of 
Judge David Davis so fill our field of vision 
that we cannot perceive brain, and not bulk, 
to be the rational basis of citizenship. 
Avoirdupois counts greatly among the 
Zulus; but is a consideration far less 
weiehty with the Americans than it was be- 
fore^the Geneva Arbitration. I venture the 
prediction that this Republic will prove 
herself the greatest fighter of the nine- 
teenth and twentieth centuries ; but her bul- 
lets will be molded into printers' type, her 
Gatling guns will be the pulpit and the plat- 
form, her war will be a war of words, and 
underneath the white storm of men's and 
women's ballots her enemies— state rights, 
the saloon, and the commune — shall find 
th@ir only shroud. 

"woman's right." 

Of the rielit of woman to the ballot I shall 
say nothing. All persons of intelligence, 
whose prejudices have not become indurated 
beyond the power of logic's sledge-hammer 
to break them, have been convinced already. 
For the rest there is no cure save one— the 
death cure — which comes or soon or late and 
will open more eyes than it closes. Of the 
Republic's right to woman's ballot I might 
say much. Well did two leaders of public 
thought set forth that right when Joseph 
Cook declared that " woman's vote wouM 
be to the vices in our great cities what the 
lightninii' is to the oak "'; and when Richard 
S^Storrs said: "If women want the suf- 
frage they will be sure to have it, and I 
don't know but when it comes it will turn 
out to be the precious amethyst that drives 
drunkenness out of politics?" 

WOMEN DO NOT WISH TO VOTE. 

"But women do not care to vote." This is 
the "last ditch" of the conservatives. The 
evolution of temperance sentiment among 



women hitherto conservative refutes this ar 
gumen^i yet I confess there are many who do js] 
not yet pe'^eive their duty. But Jack's bean- 
stalk furnishes only a tame illustration of the 
growth of women in this direction in the 
years since the Crusade. Of this swift 
growth I have already given abundant 
proof. It is, in my judgment, the most solid 
basis of gi-atitude on this national annivers- 
ary. 

During past years the brave women who 
pioneered the equal suffrage movement, and 
whose perceptions of justice were keen as a 
Damascus blade, took for their rallying 
cry: "Taxation without representation is 
tyranny." But the average woman, who 
has nothing to be taxed, declines to go 
forth to battle on that issue. Since the 
Crusade, plain, practical temperance people 
have begun appealing to this same average 
woman, saying, " With your vote we can 
close the saloons that tempt your boys to 
ruin"; and behold! they have tran&"fixed 
with the arrow of conviction that mother's 
heart, and she^ is ready for the fray. Not 
rights, but duties; not her need alone, but 
that of her children and her country; not the 
"woman," but the "human" question is stir- 
rina: women's hearts and breaking down their 
prejudice to-day. For they begin to perceive 
the divine fact that civilization, in propor- 
tion as it becomes Christianized, will make 
increasing demands upon creation's gentler 
half; that the Ten Commandments and the 
Sermon on the Mount are voted up or voted 
down upon election day; and that a military 
exigency requires the army of the Prince of 
Peace to call out its reserves. 

The experience which opened the eyes of 
one cultured conservative in Illinois is here 
in Doint. 

Mrs. Pellucid was my companion at 
the Capitol, where, with other ladies, we 
spent several weeks in the endeavor to 
secure legislative support for our Home 
Protection measures. One of the members, 
when earnestly appealed to, replied, with a 
rueful grimace: "Ladies, when I tell you 
the leading towns in the district I represent, 
you will see that I cannot do as you wish." 
and he rattled off such names as "Ffnnk- 
fort, Hamburg, and Bremen," wished us 
"the success that our earnestness merited," 
and bowed himself out. 

' ' Why— what — does — he — mean ?" in 
quired my lovely Conservative, in astonish 
ment. 

A committee clerk stood by, who answered, 
briskly: " Why, ladies, Mr. Teutonius rep 
resents a district in which German votersAj 
are in the majority; therefore, he cannotj [ 
support your bill." 

"Why, I thought a lawmaker was to rep-i p 
resent his own judgment and conscience " 
murmured the sweet-voiced lady. 

"His judirmcnt, yes; for that tells him; 
on which side the uiajority of votes in his g 
district is located. His conscience, noj )( 
for that would often cost him his chance* j, 
for a political future," answers the well^ 
instructed youth. 

" O-ooli!" softly ejaculated Mrs. Pellucid 
in the key of E flat, minor scale: 



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By this time Mr. Politicus eDtered; in re- 
•sponse to our invitation, of (course — iie 
never would have come on his own motion. 
Aiter a brief conversation, he pledged him- 
seir to votefor our bill and to make a speech 
in our favor. Nevertheless, if you should 
jsrlance over the list we are carefully pre- 
i^erving and industriously circulating- in 
nilnois, of men who voted against us, 
^ou would find his name. But he 
';s an honest fellow in his way, and 
'We owe it to a motion made by him 
'that women were, for the first time in his- 
|:ory, allowed to speak before the legis- 
'iature of Illinois. He explained his de- 
'^jertion of the temperance cause on this wise : 
I" I tell you, ladies, I've got to go back on 
jp-ou. I'm leader of my party in the House, 
ind they've cracked the party whip mighty 
' ively around my ears. The long and short 
')f it is, I've got to represent the men that 
looted me in." 

I Poor Mrs. Pellucid ! How appealing was 
jier voice, as she replied: "But I am sure 
'rour better nature tells you to represent 
IS." Mr. Politicus brought his great fist 
'ioAvn on the table with a stalwart thump, 
Hud said: "Course it does. Madam; but, 
iLord bless you women, you can't stand by 
'i lellow that stands by you, for you hain't 
\ tot any xotes. " Just here a young lady of 
|,hc group piped up: "Oh! but we would 
oersuade our friends to vote for you." 
'• ' Beg pardon, Miss ; but you couldn't do 
iiothin' of the kind," said he. "Don't you 
];'pose I know the lay o' the land in my 
ileestrict?" The young lady now grasped 
i he other horn of the dilemma, sajing, des- 
)erately: " But we will get the temperance 
nen in' your district to vote against you if 
'^ou desert us in this manner." His rejoinder 
vas a deplorable revelation to our simple- 
■ ninded company : " Never a bit on't, Miss. 
Che temperance men are an easy-going 
ot, and will vote the party ticket any- 
,1 low. Old dog Tray's ever faithful ! We've 
Ignored them for years; but they come up 
I .milin' and vote the Republican ticket all 
, he same. You'll see!" "But won't you 
1 ;taud by us f or God and home and native 
= and!" pleaded Mrs. Pellucid, with a sweet- 
ness that would have captured any man not 
Ulready caught in the snares of a gainsay- 
ing constituency. The worthy politician 
I humped the table again, and closed the inter- 
i 'iew by saying : " You women are altogether 
j 00 good to live in this world. If you 
i ;ould only vote, you'd have this legislature 
I. olid. But, since you can't, I'm bound to 
•tand by such a conscience as I've got, and 
t tells me to .stick to the fellows that voted 
.ne in. Good-morning!" And he got 
ipeedily out of r.be range of those clear, sad 
j.yes. Mr. Readyright (an ex-senator) came 
in. With all the vehemence of his Irish 
\ lature he anathematized the ' ' weak-kneed 
emperance men." " Sure as you're living, 
' Politicus told you the truth, " said he. ' ' The 
' emperance men are the foot-ball of parties. 
I There's none so poor to do 'em reverence. 
VVhere are the plticky young fellows that 
were here when we gave Illinois her present 
local option law?" (By the way, that law 



bears the name of this valiant senator, 
who is, by the same token a Democrat.) 
"Where are they? Out in the cold, to he 
sure. Did the temperance folks remember 
their services and send 'em back? Not a 
bit of it. But the wiiisky men didn't forget 
the grudge they owea 'em, and they're on 
the shelf to-day — every last man of 'em." 
"I tell you," and the wise old gentleman 
gesticulated wildly in his wrath, "until 
you women have the power to say who 
shall make the laws and who enforce 'em, 
and to reward by re-election them that are 
faithful to your cause and punish by de- 
feat them that go back upon it, you' may 
hang your bonnets on a very high nail, for 
you'll not need 'em to attend the funeral of • 
the liquor traffic! " " Wh)''," exclaimed one 
of the ladies, confusedly, "you don't mean to 
sa}^ that the temperance ballot is not enough, 
and that we must follow in the footsteps of 

Susan B. ?" The sturdy old gentlemon 

walked to the door, and fired this Parthian 
arrow back at us: " Susan could teach any 
one of ye your a-b-abs. This winter's de- 
feat'll be a paying investment to ye a!!, if 
ye learn that a politician is now and ever 
will be the drawn image, pocket edition, 
safety-valve, and speakin'-trumpet of tJie 
folks that voted him in." 

The ladies drew a long breath. "I be- 
gin to see men as trees walking," slowly 
murmured sweet Sister Pellucid. 

"But we must bide the Lord's time," 
warningly uttered an old lady, who had just 
arrived" To her the brisk committee clerk 
ventured this answer: " But SenatOi Ready- 
right says you'll find the Lord's time will 
come just about twent3'^-four hours after the 
women get their eyes open! " 

A temperance member of the House is the 
last caller whom I will report. He spake in 
thiswise: "Ladies, I pretend to no supe- 
rior saintship. I am like other men. only I 
come from a district that would behead me 
if I did not stand by you. I have a pocket 
full of letters, received to-day from party 
leaders at home, assuring me I run no risk." 
At the close of three weeks of such a school 
as this, one of our radicals asked Mrs. 
Pellucid, chief of conservatives, this pointed 
question: "Are you still for the Home 
Protection vote alone, or for the ballot on 
all questions? " She replied, in thrilling 
tones and most explicit words: "Any 
woman who could have shared our bitter 
experience heie without desiring to vote on 
everv olficer, from constable to President. 
would be either a knave or a fool." 

MAKE SELF-INTEREST OUK ALLY. 

This lady rea.soned that, since we are sol- 
emnly bound to he wise as serpents, we must 
harnessself interesttoouron niovingchariot. 
The great majority of mt^u who are in office 
desire to be re'electea. By fan mean.^, if they 
can; but to be re-elecled anyhow. Only in 
one way can they bring this U) pass by 
securing on their" aide old King Maj/^rity. 
If we furniah tbem wijlb a coDS(tituency 
committed to the proposition " Tha saioon 
must go" tlhcn go it WiH, aQ<l on the cloubde 
qwicSc. Let tihe'cirty ooundl know that w\)- 



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men have the ballot, and will not vote for 
them if they license saloons, and they will 
soon come out for prohibition. Let the 
sheriff, marshal, and constable know that 
their tenure of oihce depends on their suc- 
cess in executing the law thus secured, and 
their faithfulness will leave nothing to be 
desired. Let the shuffling justice and the 
truckling judge know that a severe inter- 
pretation of the law will brighten their 
chances of promotion, and you will behold 
rigors of penalty which Neal Dow himself 
would wince to see. 

There is also great force in the consider- 
ation that, if women, not themselves eligible to 
opce, had the power to elect or to defeat men 
(who will alone be eligible for a long while 
yet), the precise check might by this arrange- 
ment be supplied which would keep pol- 
itics from forming with the worst elements 
of society that unholy alliance which is to- 
day the grief of Christians and the despair 
of patriots. Belonging to no party our- 
selves, we might be able to lift the Sabbath, 
the temperance movement, and kindred 
moral questions out of the mire of merely 
partisan politics into which they have fallen. 
It is, at least, worth trying. Into the seeth- 
ing caldron, where the" witch's broth is bub- 
bling, let us cast this one ingredient more. 
In speaking thus I am aware that I tran- 
scend the present purpose of my constitu- 
ency, and represent myself rather than 
"the folks that voted me in!" 

• PLANS FOR THE FUTUKE. 

Our temperance women in the West are 
learning that, while the primary meetings 
are the most easily influenced, they are the 
most influential political bodies in America. 
Ere long the W. C. T. Us. will attend these, 
beginning in the smaller and more reputable 
communities. We are confident that noth- 
ing would be so efllective in securing the at- 
tendance of the respectable voter as the pres- 
ence at the primaries of "his sisters and 
his cousins and his aunts." To be "in at 
the birth" of measures vital to the well-being 
of society seems to us, in the light of last 
winter's experience, a more useful invest 
ment of our influence than to be " in at the 
death." At Springfield we found the ene- 
my entrenched, while in the primaries his 
soldiers are not yet even recruited. We in- 
tend also to open in each locality books of 
record; and, by thorough canvass, to secure 
an informal registration of all men and 
women — the former as to how they will and 
the latter as to how they would (mournful 
potential mood!) vote on the question of 
permitting saloons. Every such efiiort helps 
to obliterate party lines; or, more correctly, 
to mass the moral elements by which alone 
society coheres, against tlie disintegrating 
forces, which of themselves would drive us 
into chaos and old night. 

JVeio England must lead. Let not the West 
outstrip you in this glorious race. I appeal 
to the women of the East. Already New 
Hampshire and Massachusetts have placed in 
your hands the educational vote, which 
has a direct bearing on the temperance 
question, since by its use the mothers of 



this hind can place on the school com- 
mittees those who will make the scien- 
tific reasons for total abstinence a regular 
study of the children. I beg you, by 
its use, to testify your fitness and desire 
for the more powerful weapon it foretell,?. 
It comes to you as the gift of a few earnest, 
persistent women, who steadily asked your 
legislators to bestow it, even as they will| 
the larger gift, if you as diligently seek it 
Your undertaking will not be so gigantic | 
as ours in Illinois, for with us 34 in the sen- 
ate and 102 in the house must first agree to 
a constitutional amendment, and then the 
concurrence of two-thirds of our voters 
must be secured. Anotlier contrast further! 
illustrates the favorable conditions here 
Negro sufllrage at the South was forced 
upon wide areas occupied by a voting pop- 
ulation bitterly hostile to the innovation. 
Here woman's vote must first be granted 
by free consent of a majority of thej 
representatives chosen directly by those 
who are already citizens ; and by operating 
over the small area of a single state at r 
time it would arouse no violent upheaval 
of the opposition. Besides, the large excess 
of women here makes this the fitting battle- 
ground- of a foregone victory. Women of 
New England! among all the divisions of 
our great White Ribbon Army you occupy 
the strategetic position. Truly, your valiantf 
daughter, Illinois, earlier flung down the 
gauge of the new battle; but your blood is 
in our veins, your courage nerves our hearts, 
your practical foresight determines our meth- 
ods of work. I come from the prairies, 
where we are marshaling forces for a fresh 
attack, and solemnlj^ adjure you to lead us 
in this fight for Grod and home and native 
land. Still let dear old New England take 
her natural place in the forefront of the bat- 
tle; and from an enemy more hateful than 
King G-eorge let the descendants of our 
foremothers deliver Concord and Lexington 
and wield once more in Boston, with its 
eight miles of grog-shops, the sword of Bun- 
ker Hill! To chronicle the deeds by which 
your devotion shall add fresh luster to 
names renowmed and hallowed, the Muse of 
History prepares her tablet and poises hei 
impartial pen. 

Friends, there is always a way out for| 
humanity. Evermore in earth's affairs God 
works by means. To-day he hurls back 
upon us our complaining cry: "How long? 
O Lord! how long?" Even as he answ^ered 
faint-hearted Israel, so he replies to us: 
What can I do for this people that I have 
not done? "Speak unto the children of Israel 
that they go forward." 

"There's a light about to beam, 
There's a fount about to stream, 
There's a warmth about to slow, 
There's a flower about to blow. 
There's a midnight blackness 

Changing into gray ; 
Men of thoughts, of votes, of action, 

Clear tJie way ! 

Aid that dawning tongue and pen ; 
Aid it, hopes of honest men ; 
Aid It, for the hour is ripe, 
And oar earnest must not slacken into play. 
Men of thoughts, of votes, of action, I 

CUar the way ! " , 



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PLANS FOR PETITION WORK. 



SOME PROTECTION PETITION TO THE NA- 
TIONAL OR STATE LEGISLATURE. 

This will include the following methods: 
1. A committee to be appointed by the 
5tate W. C. T. U. and called the ' ' Home 
Protection Committee." (As a rule, the pres- 
dent should be its chairman.) The petition 
3 to be drafted b}^ this committee, acting 
inder legal advice, and every detail relating 
' o its circulation and presentation controlled 
|)y them. 

■i 2. A special committee, to be chosen also 
oy the State Union, whose duty it is to se- 
:ure a separate Home Protection Fund (by 
)rivate subscription) to pay for documents, 
)rinting, postage, and amanuenses bills, 
'dso a clerk, who will send out all docu 
nents and receive and classify all letters 
! .nd signatures. This committee will report 
hrough the press all funds received and to 
'he treasurer of the State Union — with sat- 
isfactory vouchers — all disbursements and 
feceipts. [N.B. — We found it easier to raise 
liQOuey for this work than for any other ever 
^mdertaken by our Unions.] 

I 3. Petitions and documents (this Manual 
'iirnishes a sufficient variety) containing 
! acts and arguments for Local Option and 
'j lome Protection to be sent out from the 

II entral office to every editor in the state, 
' vith a printed letter, carefully prepared by 
' he committee, urging- him to publish the 

iCtition and extracts from the documents 
' nd to give the movement his personal en- 
dorsement. As the campaign progresses, 
I ;otes, incidents, news, etc. to be sent, on 
*jtrinted slips, to every editor and leading 
Newspaper correspondent. [Send 30 cents 
\o Geo. P. Rowell, New York, for list of 
11 the editors in any state.] The leading 
ournalists to be personally visited by influ- 
' ntial delegations of men and women and 
(leir support reque.sted. This "press 
rork " must be carefully assigned to capable 
7omen in all leading towns of the state. 
4.-T]ie petition and documents to be sent 
D each minister of every church, to the 
resident of every temperance organization 
|nd of. every society in the state, and to each 
ostmaster, separate forais of printed letters 
eing prepared for each leading class. The 
adorsement by published resolutions of all 
iligious and philanthropic bodies is to be 
'ought; a,nd to this end the best men and 
-omen are to be specifically delegated to 
ddress ministers' meetings and societies in 
veiy locality, also conferences, synods, 
ad conventions of county, district, and 
:ate. The names of all these persons can 
e readily obtained in large cities from 
irectories or at the publishing houses of 
leir respective organs, and for the smaller 
)wns by calling at the city heodquarters of 
le various organizations, as indicated in the 
irectories. Tens of thousands of petitions 
ill be required. [For forms of all sorts, 
L^,neral and local and on various subjects, 
ie following pa ges. ] Tl le back o f each copy 
lay be utilized to print the most pithy ar- 
uments and best eudorsements> 
6; Qottveatioas m every cott^gw^slottai 



district, and, if possible, in every county; as 
many first-class speakers in the field as the 
people will support; special .sermons (for 
which in the " Letter to Ministers" earnest 
and respectful request has been made); 
Union meetings on Sabbath evenmgs; par- 
lor meetings for the more conservative in 
towns and cities. 

6. Delegations to visit Catholic bishop.s 
and priests, urging their co-operation. 
Translations of best arguments into Ger- 
man, and addresses to German audiences, 
based on the text: " Come, let us reason to- 
gether." No harsh words ever to be spo- 
ken of any class. It is easy to tear down; 
more than eas^ to scold: but we are build- 
ing up and usmg the '! sweet reasonable- - 
ness" demanded by Christ's Gospel. 

7. Each town and village to be districted, 
and women to go from house to house, store 
to store, and office to office. This enlists, 
most brains, hearts and hands, and, hence, 
this is the right arm of the service. Xolhing 
will compensate for neglect here. All other 
agencies are means to the success of this 
end. Let the women go with prayer, as 

1 they went to the Crusade; and their visits, 
multiplied by tens of thousands, will work 
a mighty revolution. The "Home Pro- 
tection" documents, copies of " Our Union," 
"Miss Colman's Leaflets," and "The Ju- 
venile Temperance Banner," and other 
temperance literature, must be furnished, 
to be distributed according to their discre- 
tion. 

8. Vice-presidents of congressional dis- 
tricts are the ablest helpers in this Avork. 
when their abilities, health, and home car* 
permit them to work. They must be chos 
carefully, with all these considerations "XO 
view. District conventions are to be he 

by them, documents of all sorts sent out ■. 
local unions through their hands, and tn^ 
canvj^iss superintended by them. the 

9. There must be but one "Headquarters,"' ;; 
one person to whose address all orders f(»w 
petitions and documents and all the sign— 
tures obtained are sent. State precise 
date when all petitions must be returned, 
with signatures, to i. jadnuarters, and (t.* 
not cliange that date. These signatures 
must be at once and gratefully acknowl- 
edged by printed postal. Addresses of 

all persons who gather up signatures or 
specially interest themselves in the work 
must be kept in the Home Protection 
Directory at headquarters, and will be 
invaluable for present reference and in 
future Avork. The autograph signatures 
to the petition may be pasted and ironed 
smooth on white cloth, half a yard wide, 
bound on one side with blue and on the 
other with red braid, wound on a roller, 
and tied with white ribbon. If practicable, 
classify by towns, and, keep a tabulated 
book account of them. 

10. At the Capital. — Before the leqislafure 
assembles a committee of gentlemen and la- 
dies, residents of the capital, will be required 
to prepare for the cominq- of Home Protec- 
tion Committee. They will provide for their 
entertainment, notify the press, stating their 
miiisioii, aad arrange a meeting for them in 



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the Hall of the House of Representatives ; 

another in a large church ; and a third, espe- 
cially for ladies, in the afternoon; and, if 
possible, one for children. It will be well 
to improve the occasion by a district con- 
vention of the Woman's Christian Temper- 
ance Unions (see Plan), in vrhich case 
the committee will remain three days, in- 
stead of two. The petition and the bill 
it calls for should be presented on the first 
day of the session, a special effort being 
made to have it the very first bill presented. 
This cannot he too strongly emphasized. Let 
the same bill be presented simultaneously 
in the Senate and House, and let the great 
petition be presented by the iadies, within 
a week or two after the opening of the ses- 
sion. To this end the petition campaign 
ought to begin in the autumn and last about 
eight weeks. The processes of legislation 
are so slow that every day's delay after the 
session opens drives a nail in the cofBn 
which is being industriously prepared for 
our measures by the liquor interest. 

The resident senator and a resident mem- 
ber of the House will introduce resolutions 
asking for your committee the use of the re- 
spective halls of the capitol for your public 
meeting. Wednesday is the best evening, 
since members are more likely to be absent 
the first and last of the ^veek. Front seats 
should be reserved for members of the 
legislature and ushers (chosen by chief jan- 
itor of capitol from his assistants to whom 
the faces of the members are familiar) 
should be stationed at the doors, to conduct 
"iem to their seats. 

letThe meeting in Representatives' Hall 
areich may be festooned with the petition) 
mcl be carefully prepared for by the local 
Emmittee, printed invitations being sent to 
beJry member of the Senate and House; 
esoto the State Executive and Judiciary 
aud to the press. Music, religious and patri- 
otic, should be furnisl«ed by orchestra and 
chorus; the Bible read (Psalm cxlvi, "the 
Crusade Psalm," and Darts of Joel ii are ex- 
cellent selections, also Ps. x); prayer 
offered; and, after brief addresses (timed 
by the chairman) and an expression 
of the opinion of the audience on the 
temperance ballot, taken by a rising vote, 
the audience dismissed with the benediction. 

Among songs suited to the occasion, or to 
any Home Protection meeting, may be 
mentioned: "America," "Lift up thy 
voice with Singing" (Gospel Songs No. 2), 
"The World is Moving On," " Song of the 
Ribbons," "Save that Tempted Boy," "The 
Home that Used to Be," " Home Protection 
Hymn," "Carry Me Back to My Mother's 
Home," "Hear the Call, O Gird your Armor 
On," etc. 

" Home, Sweet Home," snng by chorus or 
played by band while the audience disperses, 
is marvelously effective and leaves an impres- 
sion most helpful to the cause. 

No attempt should be made to gain a 
hearing which would not be accorded to 
men; but the ladies will, of course, be 
present when the sfnator and representative 
they have chosen present their petition in 
llie' two houses, and, if invited, will be 



ready to give to the people's representatives 
reasons for the work they have wrought. 

If practicable, have your meetings at the 
capitol stenographically reported, published 
in some well-known state paper, and copies 
sent out as a " campaign document." Make 
special efforts to enlist the mothers, wives, 
and daughters of the legislators in your 
movement. The majority of them have 
enough good sense, liberality, and earnest- 
ness of spirit to sympathize with you, and 
can enforce your arguments in the most in^ 
fluential quarters, by the persuasive influ 
ence of life's tenderest affections. 

Through leading members of Senate and 
House secure the appointment of a " Com- 
mittee on Temperance," to whom your 
petitions may be referred, rather than to the 
Judiciary Committee, which is usually the 
burial-place of progressive temperance meas- 
ures. 

Having presented your petition, with due 
ceremonies, to Senate and House (separ- 
ately), follow it to each committee to which 
it is consigned, making to each your argu- 
ment and plea. But let the appropriate 
senator and member receive a duplicate of 
each petition from any locality, with a cer- 
tified copy of the autograph signatures 
which have been sent to your committee, 
and let these be handed in from daj'^ to day 
in the legislature, that the subject may be 
kept in mind. 

The bill which your petition calls for 
must be presented by a committee or a 
member; must be placed on file; may be 
referred to various committees ; and must be 
read three times before it can be passed. 
All this takes several weeks, at best; and, if 
not rapidly advanced from point to point by 
the persistence of its friends, the bill never 
reaches third reading, and members avoid 
what they most dread and we most de- 
sire — "going on record." This "record" 
should be a matter of the utmost publicity, 
being printed in all the papers and sent 
to each local temperance society, for refer- 
ence. B.y working up public sentiment -and 
attending primary meetings, women must do 
their utmost to defeat those men who defeat 
our Home Protection measures. 

Among the hundreds of bills before the 
leccislature, yours is likely to be forgotten by 
the good and delayed or killed by the bad; 
so it is important that you appoint a wise 
and cautious sub-committee to remain, and 
by careful canvass of members ascertain 
your strength and by thoughtful counsel 
iearn to seize the moments of opportunity 
to advance the bill. The members of 
your sub-committee, on "advancing the 
bill" at the capitol, should never appear 
as hangers-on in corridor or gallery; but 
should have a room, easy of access, in the 
building itself, and should by visiting card 
request the presence of "servants of the 
people," who will ahvays respond with the 
courtesy to which American mothers have 
educated their sons. But great tact and 
considerateness should be used m askmg 
only brief interviews with those who have so 
maiiy to meet. Three to five ladies is the 
best number to be in attendance at a time^ 



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FORMS OF DOCUMENTS FOR A HOME 
PROTECTION CAMPAIGN. 

[To be sent out as Frinted Circulars]. 

LETTER TO MINISTERS. 

Rev. : 

Dear Sir :— To you, as a minister of Christ, 
we veuture, as members of the Church, to 
make a special appeal. You have noticed the 
noble stand of the religious press for "'Home 
Protection." This encoura<jes us to hope that 
you will make an address in its favor, and pre- 
sent the enclosed petition to your largest Sab- 
bath audience, in the manner described in the 
circular, and send all names so obtained to be 
pasted on the roll. 

We want at least 100,000 names, and, with 
the co-operation of ^ood and influential people, 
we can get them. A.lso please have the petition 
published in your local paper, with the request 
prefixed to it : ''Please cut out and circulate 
this in audiences (according to the plan de- 
scribed), and privately also, and send all auto- 
graphs, stating where they were obtained and 

when, to , , , by date." 

Through vour influence may not other minis- 
ters be indixced also to present the petition to 
their audiences ? 

We also count on the W. C. T. U., on the 
Reform Club and all temperance societies to aid 
us, that, by all working together, ours may be 
the pioneer state to secure the temperance ballot 
in woman's hand as a means of Home Protec- 
tion. Tour influence with members of the 
legislature is, in conclusion, earnestly asked. 
May God bless this endeavor made in his 
name. Sincerely yours, 



PresH State W. C. T. U. 

TO BE SENT TO PRESIDENTS OF R. R. AND 
TELEGRAPH COINIPANIES, AND ALL CORPOR- 
ATE BODIES NOT HOSTILE TO THE CAUSE. 

To ; 

Dear Sir : — Will you not secure for us sig- 
natures to the enclosed Petition of all eligible 
names in your establishment, and return to me 

before the day of ? 

It will greatly help our cause. 
You will be glad to know that the Petition is 
meeting with a high degree of favor from pul- 
pit, press, and people. We will forward niore 
Petitions, if desired. 

Sincerely yours, 

President State W. C. 't. U. 

TO BE SENT TO EVERY OFFICER CONNECT- 
ED WITH PRISONS, JAILS, AND CHARITABLE 
INSTITUTIONS IN THE STATE. 

Dear Sir: — In view of the well-known fact 
that the misery which vour efforts help to mit- 
igate is largely caused by strong drink, I appeal 
to you to give the enclosed Petition a careful 
circulation in your establishment, returning it 

to me not later than the — ^ day of , 

headed by names of the managers and officers 
of the institution. 

Sincerely yours, 

PresH State W. C. T. U. 
We will gladly send more Petitions, if 
desired. 

TO POSTMASTERS. 

Dear Sir: — Will you not see that the en- 
closed Petitions are placed in the hands of 
some lady or gentleman who will at once se- 
cure a house-to-house visitation cawvass for 
names ? 

"the press, pulpit, &nd people afe Warmly en^ 



d^rsing it, as indicating the shortest road to a 
better protection of liomes and tempted loved 
ones. 

1 appeal to you as a patriot and enlightened 
citizen to 'j:i\e us this aid. I will gladly send 
more Petitions, if desired. 

Sincerely yours, 

TO BE SENT OUT, AFTER PETITION AND BILL 
HAVE COME BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE, 
TO ALL SOCIETIES AND CORPORATIONS FA- 
VORABLE TO TEMPERANCE. 

Please secure the passage by your society 
of the following form of Resolution, and 

return at once to , at . Prompt 

attention to this request may save the day 
for our Petition. 

licsolved, That the of [name of 

StateJ, most respectfully pray the Honorable 
Legislature to pass promptly and speedily the 
bill now pending in the House known as the 
Bill, in conjunction with the Home Pro- 
tection Petition, and providing for the i-ight 
of all residents, men and women, to petition 
[or to vote, as the case may be J for or 
against the granting of license to keep dram- 
shops. 

Rcsolv'd, Also, that we likewise, in conjunc- 
tion with the Home Protection Petition, pray- 
for the submission to a vote of the people of a 
resolution to so change the constitution as to 
grant to women the right to vote on temper- 
ance questions. 

Please return immediately to 

Mrs. — ^ , 

Signed by President and Secretary 

(name of the Temperance or other society 
adopting the Resolution). 

Give number of membership of society. 



PLAN FOR LOCAL CAMPAIGN 
CARRY NO-LICENSE." 



TO 



I. — HOW NOT TO DO IT. 

1. Complain all me preceding year of the 
utter failure of no-license and do nothing 
whatever to secure its enforcement, though 
you voted (or worked) for it at the last elec- 
tion. 

2. Tell (in private) what astonishing 
"dead letter" tokens you see every time 
you go down-town; hut never give your 
evidence, influence, or money to help con- 
vict the law-breakers. 

3. Never speak in pulpit or prayer-meet- 
ing about the law. Treat it as a Gentile, 
that has no place in the courts of tlie Lord. 

4. Let it be generally understood that the 
best people in town are utterly discouraged 
and disgusted with Prohibition and ready to 
return to license. " since it helps to ketp up 
the sidewalks, at least." 

5. Aroused by the straightforward argu- 
ments of an earnest temperance worker, im- 
ported by somebody three days before elec- 
tion, come out brighter than ever — perhaps 
because of this temporary eclipse — and de- 
clare that it's a shame to let the town go by 
default. Induce the temocrancc sojourner 
to remain. Whisper softly whenever con- 
venient that there are to be meetings held: 
but do:;.'i mention the fact out loud. Light 
up the rhurch dimly ; gather in a couple of 
hundred excellent t*"'opl^ who need &o rd^ 



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pentance ; furnish no music, save as Deacon 
Fugue "raises" "Old Hundred" higher 
than the church-gable; and expect the 
dead community to be galvanized into 
ghastly and imbecile motion at the eleventh 
hour. 

Forget that the rum party held secret 
caucuses while you were asleep; selected 
their candidates while you were scolding at 
the law ; and canvassed for votes while you 
were busy getting reconverted! In brief, 
though you are harmless as a dove, don't on 
any account allow yourself to be wise as a 
serpent. 

n.— HOW IT HAS BEEN DONE. 

1. The W. C. T. U. co-operated with 
other temperance societies and with the 
churches m raising a fund by private sub- 
scription and public pledges. 

2. This was placed in the hands of 
an Executive Committee or "Home Protec- 
tion Alliance," and by them invested in 
securing speakers and circulating prohibi- 
tion documents. [See List, with prices.] 

These were given out at all public meet- 
ings, left in all stores and offices, hung up 
on lamp-posts, in street-cars, and every- 
where, and carried to all homes by judi- 
cious sub-committees. Tracts in their own 
language are sure to gain the attention of 
Germans and Scandinavians. A column of 
carefully-selected facts and arguments was 
supplied every week in the year for the 
weekly press by women specially appointed, 
who used their scissors to excellent pur- 
pose on the teeming columns of the tem- 
perance papers furnished them by the Ex- 
ecutive Committee. [See List.] 

When, as has been computed, a million 
words of temperance logic can be had for the 
price of a drink, and the cost of a yoke of 
oxen invested in such words will so revolu- 
tionize public sentiment that local option is 
carried in a whole county, where is the sense 
or gTace in temperance people who complain 
that "they don't know what to do " and are 
"only waiting " for work? 

3. Temperance meetings were regularly 
held throughout the year, ' ' to work up public 
sentiment." The first six months they were 
held every fortnight; the next three, every 
week ; the last two, several times a week ; 
and the last month, every night. These 
meetings were handsomely placarded 
through the town and thoroughly adver- 
tised in press and pulpit. The managers of 
a theatrical company could hardly have 
taken more pains to invite people to come 
than did this temperance committee. 
During the last month a band of music 
played every night in front of the hall 
where the best interests of the com- 
munity were to be discussed by earnest, 
practical men and women, devoted to the 
cause. Often speakers were met at the 
depot by the White-ribbon Brigade and the 
Reform Club. All speakers were instiiicted 
to use no bitter epithets nor harsh person- 
al allusions. Facts, logic, persuasion, em- 
bellished by narratives, brightened by wit — 
these were their sufficient stock in trade. 
Ministers of the Gospel bore a prominent 



part in this work, speaking from their pul- 
pits on Sunday and steadily lending their 
influence to the work. Children from the 
public schools recited selections, witty and 
sad ; young men declaimed ; young women 
read and sang. There was a place for ev- 
erybody, and grandly were those places 
filled. 

4. Two or three weeks beforehand, at a 
large public meeting, the People's Ticket was 
announced, having been agreed upon by the 
Executive Committee, appointed at the 
beginning of the campaign and consisting 
of a member from each church and two from 
each temperance society. The men chosen 
as municipal officers were remarkable for 
something besides their devotion to the tem- 
perance cause. They stood well in the com- 
munity ; had thoroughly practical and liber- 
al views concerning town affairs; were 
thorough financiers; and hard-headed men 
of business could pick no flaw in their in- 
tegrity. They were not the sort of nomi- 
nees whom you can pick up the evening be- 
fore to " fill a gap," which will be wider the 
day after election than at any previous date. 
They were solid citizens, who would never 
have come forward thus save on the call of 
of a committee which had shown skill 
equal to its earnestness, and common sense 
no whit behind the clear grit it had ex- 
hibited. 

The candidates made brief addresses, and, 
from mayor to constable, pledged them- 
selves to a faithful execution of the laws. 
Now came the seething of the caldron, 
which had been heated long. The town, 
already districted by the committees on 
circulating documents, was thoroughly 
canvassed once more — this time with a peti- 
tion similai- to that which follows : 

" We, the undersigned, voters and women 
of legal age within the corporate limits of 

the town of , do respectfully and 

earnestly petition all persons who will sup- 
port the following 

people's ticket 



to affix their signatures to this paper: wo- 
men's names being a promise to use their in- 
fluence in favor of the ticket, and men's names 
being a promise to vote the said ticket on 
election dav." 

MEN. j WOICEN. 

Thus every signature was not only a per- 
sonal agreement, but had also the force of 
a request to all other residents of the com- 
munity. This canvass was conducted 
chiefly by women carefully chosen for 
their discretion and their gentleness. The 
results of it were published in the local 
papers, figures being given, but not names. 

5. Election day arrived. The ladies had 
secured permission to decorate the engine- 
house with wreaths, flowers, and patriotic 
mottoes. They furnished a toothsome free 
luueh nex% door, to w&igli ever^bod^f wa« 



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invited, and where the temperance pledge 
was offered and the People's Ticket 
and a buttonhole bouquet furnished to 
all who would accept them. Hundreds 
of voters were fed and won, and scores 
of homes were brightened by new re- 
solves that day; and toward night the 
church-bells rang out the tidings of a vic- 
toiy that had been earned, a success that 
had been organized, as all true successes are. 

6. But the Executive Committee did not 
stop here. The headquarters were still kept 
open, and a secretary employed who kept 
a bright lookout for opportunities to 
strengthen the hands of the authorities in 
that enforcement of law which alone makes 
it respected and enduring. 

To the W. C. T. Us. which are "waiting 
for work" this plan is recommended for 
study. Its most important suggestions may 
be universally applied and its campaign 
lasts all the year round, 

OTHER METHODS OF INFLUENCING 
LOCAL LEGISLATION. 

ONE woman's work. 

In a quiet Eastern town there is a noble 
lady who is shut out from our general wopk 
by deafness. But her earnestness and suc- 
cess are a reproach to most of us who hear 
BO much we do not heed. Determined to 
do her best, this lady induced her brother, 
an influential business man, to invite two or 
three gentlemen to his home on Saturday 
night, to devise means of carrying no-license 
at the next election. They talked the mat- 
ter over, and, as must always be the case, 
became more deeply interested as they did 
so. The next Saturday night each brought 
another friend to the discussion, and so it 
went on, until all the best men had agreed 
upon a plan and a ticket, which was tri- 
umphantly elected. 

What one woman accomplished by indi- 
rection another may and many surely will 
by wise concerted action. 

women's local petition for the temper- 
ance BALLOT. 

In many towns the municipal authori- 
ties could, if they would, adopt a special 
ordinance, by which women might vote 
on the question of license. A petition 
asking for this should be thoroughly circu- 
lated, every person of legal age being given 
the opportunity to sign, and should be pre- 
sented to the council by a strong delegation, 
after having first been read and expounded 
at a great public meeting of the people. The 
following may serve as a form of petition : 
To the Mayor and Council of .• 

We, the undersigned, men and women of 
-, believe that women should be granted 



a voice in deci(iing whether we are to have 
dram-shops amona; the institutions of our vil- 
lag'e ; and we earnestly desire that provision 
shall be made, by special ordinance, for a vote 
on the question of leecalizing the liquor traffic, 
and that in such vote women be invited to 
share. 

NAMES OF MEN OVER I NA5IES OF WOMEN OVER 
81. 21. 

rVVlth slight changes, this vrtll apply to eounties and 



If they will not grant this, do not say, iu 
dolorous accents, "It was of no use, and 
we'll not try again"; but faithfully use 
your two best weai)Ous, the printed and tlie 
spoken word, seasoned with prayer. Throng 
the primaries where city fathers are ag;un 
chosen; work up the sentiment; toil on the 
election day; and place men in their stead 
who will grant what your petition asked. 
Or, if not .successful the first ye;ir, try a^aim 
the second. With the motto " The W. C. T. 
If. never surrenders," success is sure. 

A modification of this form of work is 
explained in the following, adopted by sev- 
eral district conventions in Illinois: 

"Mesolced, That we recommend to local 
unions in towns wliere the question of 
license is pending a thorough canvass, with 
the following petition: 'We, tlie under- 
signed, voters and women of legal age 
within the corporate limits of the town 
of , do respectfully and earnestly pe- 
tition our municipal authorities to order a 
popular vote, to be participated in by all 
men and women over 21 jeuTs of age, within 
the corporate limits, on the question of 
license or no license ; and we voters whose 
names are here affixed pledge ourselves to 
cast our ballots at the next regular election 
of municipal officers for such men only as 
will pledge themselves faithfully to execute 
the will of the people, manifested by the 
aforesaid local-option vote by men and 
women, when said vote decides in favor of 
no license.'" 

names of men. I names OF WOM^LN. 

This petition might serve as an educator 
in localities where the vote could not or 
would not be rendered of legal, rather than 
of merely moral significance. 

PETITION AGAINST GAMES, SCREENS, ETC. 
IN SALOONS. 

Good work can be done with the follow- 
ing, especially in cities : 
To the Honorable M'xyor and Board of Aldermen : 

We, the undersigned, respectfully and ear- 
nestly request the adoption of an ordinance 
requiring saloon-keepers to take the paint olf 
their window-panes and the screens from be- 
fore their doors ; also that the front door shall 
be their only means of entrance or of exit, and 
that no chairs or tables shall De allowed within 
then- walls ; and, farther, that this ordinance 
shaU be faithfully executed. 

To the foregoing might b«^ added the ban- 
ishing of all games ancl billiard-tables from 
the saloons, 'also the prohibiting of the 
sale of liquor to minors and closing on the 
Sabbath. If thought best, some one specifi- 
cation might be made the subject of peti- 
tion. 

PETITION TO LOCAL OFFICERS FOR ENFORCE- 
MENT OF LAW. 

Norwich, Conn. , a city of 17,000 inhabit- 
ants, is a valuable object-lesson for local- 
option states. Through the heroic, work of 
Kev Hugh Montijomerv and the statesman- 
like utterances of Rev. Dr. L. T. Cham])er- 
lain, the people have been aroused as never 
before, and have voted no-liccnse. Take 
the followmg figure*: 



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Last aatumn, when this vote was taken, 
tliey had two liuadre.. open dram-shops. 
Tliey have now i^Aagust, 1879) had ten 
months of prohibition. Under license their 
jail average was twenty-nine; under no- 
license it is ten. The board of these prison- 
ers costs the taxpayers $2.25 per week. 
Hence, they have saved $45 per week ; or, 
as compared with the same time last year, 
$2,340. Each prosecution of a prisoner to 
jail costs $15, and when appealed to a supe- 
rior court, $50 ; making the average at least 
$20. 

Thus at least $6,000 have been saved on 
prosecutions. The selectmen say that $400 
have been saved in cost ol' " outside poor"; 
or a total of $5,000. The city court has re- 
ceived from illicit dealers, in fines, costs, 
and forfeited bonds, $1,500, instead of a 
loss of $4,000, as m former years; and the 
clerk of the superior court states that the 
costs of prosecutions have been fully cov- 
ered by forfeited bonds, etc. 

But the mayor and other m-unicipal officers, 
police force, etc. of Norwich are all friends 
of license. How, then, could enforcement be 
secured? Here is the invaluable lesson of 
jSTorwich. "They won their first battle 
at the polls ; but their second and even more 
significant victory was wrung from the 
executive officers, who had taken their oath 
as servants of the people to enforce the 
people's will. They were made to feel the 
Insh of public opinion, and had they not 
heeded its lessons they would have been 
openly prosecuted. Temperance people 
take notice! No longer feel yourselves 
called upon to do amateur work in securing 
convictions. The city officials enforce other 
laws; require them to enforce the lawb 
against license. But for the sheriff, the 
constable. i.L.e city attorney, and the mayor, 
yonr Mtnallest rights and daily safety would 
be ceaseiessly imperiled. Make the consti- 
tuted authorities do their duty in the tem- 
perance law for the protection of your 
homes, as in all others." 

But liow did they do this? They had the 
city charter read and expounded in public 
meetings and showed the people — what they 
actually did not know — the positive and 
solemn obligation of the authorities to en- 
force the law. They sent deputations of 
leading citizens to the mayor, and only re- 
trained from petitioning because they 
found it unnecessary; but, had not their 
will been heeded, they would have consid- 
ered petitioning the next step, and prosecu- 
tion the next, not of law-breaking saloon- 
keepers only, but also of officers shamefully 
:guilty of malfeasance. 

PETITION, 

To the Hon. Mayor and Board of Aldermsn : 
We, the undersigned, men and women of 

, respectfully and earnestly remind you 

'of your oath of "office (here quote the oath), 
and call upon you to invoke the following 
(here quote the ordinance). 

Have this presented and circulated in a 
large public meeting, then carried from 
.house to liouBc, and presented by a deputa- 
tion of Icadias men and women, 'AM:hy$ 



have women sign. Never ignore your own 
sex. V.:. SAOw-H a feeble sense of your person- 
al digiatj- :<\,(\ 'X most inadequate comprehen- 
sion of woiixttii^ power and place in civil- 
ized comnuiriities. 

PETITIONS FOE, US'S IN CONSERVATIVE COM- 
MUNITIES. 

The following petition will serve to edu- 
cate public sentiment in the most conserva- 
tive localities : 

We, the under;igne(i, men and women of 

, do hereby petition for the protection of 

the homes of our city, by the enactme-Qt of a 
municipal ordinance that no place for the sale 
of intoxicating drinks shall he licensed in any 
ward in our city, without the consent of a ma- 
jority of the voters and of the women over 
eighteen years of age in that ward ; such con- 
sent to be expressed by their signa.tnres to a 
petition for such license. [Or this form may 
be used : "Without the consent expressed by 
ballot of a majority of men and women over 
twenty-one years of age in each ward, or in 
each town, as the case may be."] 

The following petition has been used with 
excellent results at Stafford Springs, Ct. : 



To the Voters of .* 

We, your sisters, wives, and mothers, de- 
fenseless, except as you shall protect us, re 
spectf ully appeal to yon, our husbands, broth- 
ers, and legal defenders, to deliver our homes 
from the ravages of rum, by voting no license. 

ATTENDANCE AT PRIMABIES. 

"One vote in the caucus is worth te^i at 
the polls," says Henry H. Faxon, of Mas- 
sachusetts, and to his statement all observ- 
ant men agree. When temperance ques- 
tions are involved — and this is especially the 
case when municipal officers are to be nom- 
inated, or delegates sent to conventions 
where legislative officers are to be chosen — ■ 
women who care for temperance ought to 
be out in force, because their presence will 
secure a m.uch larger attendance of reputa- 
ble voters, and because in this way and by 
their influence they can do much to deter- 
mine the selection of candidates. When 
it seems best, a petition should be circulated 
pledging those who sign (both men and wo- 
men) to attend the primary meeting, and in- 
volving a request to others to go and do 
likewise. 

BEGISTP.ATION. 

Book-s should be opened at the headquar- 
ters of the W. C. T. U. for a registration 
of voters as to how they will, and of wo- 
men as to how they would, if they could, 
vote on the question of license, and also for 
what candidates. These intentions to be 
learned by house-to-house canvass, conduct- 
ed by the W. C. T. U. 

PLAN TO SECUHE VOTES OF WOMEN ON 
SCHOOL QUESTIONS. 

Five states have granted the ballot to 
women on the school question. This can 
be utilized for temperance purposes, and our 
unions in those states should do their ut- 
most to call out the full strength of this 
vote, for many reasons, of which these are 
chief: 



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1. If, from lack of information, women 
fail to use the privilege already conferred, 
men who are friends of temperance will 
say, with conviction and regret, what its 
foes will joyfully re-echo, "Evidently, 
women do not want the ballot" ; and thus 
our work for the temperance vote will be 
greatly impeded. 

2. If women will use their new power, 
they can help good men to elect such school 
officers as will put Miss Julia Colman's 
"Temperance Manual," Dr. Richardson's 
"Temperance Lesson Book," and Dr. 
Story 'on "Alcohol," into the different 
grades of our schools; and thus the 
scientific basis of total abstinence will be 
as thoroughly taught to the little men 
and women as reading and arithmetic. 
This steady and widespread influence 
would be as superior to our present spas- 
modic and incomplete methods of educat- 
ing public sentiment as the falling of dew is 
more effectual for the growth of our gar- 
dens than the spray of a hose-fountain. We 
must first set these facts forth in the local 
press; visit the ministers' meetings, and get 
them to Uring the subject before their con- 
gregations; hold public meetings, carefully 
prepared for and adequately addressed; and, 
last and always most important, institute a 
house-to-house canvass of the town, having 
it districted and streets duly assigned to 
women who will circulate a 

PETITION A]SD PLEDGE. 



We, women of 



-, believins: that those 



who are dear to us should be forewarned and 
forearmed by regular scientific teaching against 
the habit of usins: intoxicating liquors, do 
hereby piedire ourselves to register our names 
as voters and to cast our ballots only for such 
school officers as are favorable to making in- 
struction in til e principles of total abstinence 
a branch of study in our schools : and we call 
upon all good and true men to aid us in this 
endeavor. 

NAMES. j RESIDENCES. 

Let this petition be presented by a com- 
mittee appointed for the purpose to the 
town meeting or primary at which the 
officers are chosen, and let women be there 
to speak on its behalf and to influence the 
selection of officers in the interest of tem- 
perance. A similar petition might with 
STcat propriety be circulated for the signa- 
tures of men. In either case it can be read- 
ily adapted to the^different circumstances of 
the various states. 

PETITION TO COUNTY SUPERVISORS. 

In several states these officers have juris- 
diction over the liquor traffic outside of 
corporate limits, and much might be gained 
by a; petition like the following: 

To the County Supervisors or Commissioners of 
County : 
Gentlemen: — We, the undersigned, men and 
vvomen of County, respectfully and ear- 
nestly request you to grant no licenses for the 
sale of intoxicating liquors except on petition* 
of a majority of men and women of leo:al age. 

* Or "oil vote." Wherever this 1b at aU practicable 
iet it be substituted, as of much gTBafer force. 



PETITIONS CONCERNING DRUNKEN LEGIf*liA- 
TORS. 

The legislature of Michigan passed the 
following at its last session, and but for a 
dilatoriness in signing which should ruin 
the future prospects of the ^governor it 
would now be a law : 

" Sec. 1, ETC. If any state, county, town- 
ship, school-distiict, or village officer shall 
become drunk or intoxicated, upon convic- 
tion thereof, before any court of competent 
jurisdiction, the said otficer so convicted 
shall no longer be competent to discharge 
the duties of said office; and said office 
shall thereby become vacant, the same 
as if such oflicer had resigned or died, 

"Sec. 2. Any office becoming vacant under 
Section 1 of this act shall be filled in the 
same manner as is provided by law in case 
such vacancy had occurred b}^ the death or 
resignation of the person holding such office. 

"Sec. 3. That all acts and parts of acts 
which in any sense contravene the provis- 
ions of this act be and the same are hereby 
repealed." 

Let us petition for the passage of this 
law, which can be enacted by town or coun- 
ty authorities, to govern themselves, as well 
as by state or national. 

PETITION FOR A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. 

The fo]lov.ing is the form furnished by 
the National Publishing Society, and can 
he modified for use in a state or in a city : 

NATIONAL COMillSSION OF INQUIRV PETITION. 

To the United States Senate and House of Repre- 
sentatives : 

Tour petitioners, citizens of the United 
States, respectfully ask that you will provide, 
by appropriate legislation, for the appoint- 
ment, by the President of the United States, of 
a Commission of Inquiry concerning the Alco- 
holic Liquor TraflBc — its Relations to Public 
Revenue and Taxation, to Crime, Pauperism, 
the Public Health, Morals. Education, and the 
G-eneral Welfare of the People : and also the 
Results of License, Restrictive and Prohibitory 
Lejcislation in the several states, and in the 
District of Columbia and the territories. 

NAMES. I NAMES. 

GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR CIRCULATING 
PETITIONS. 

Explicit directions should be prefixed to 
each copy of all petitions. They should be 
printed in smaller type than the petition it- 
self, in brackets, at the top of the sheet. 
Xever send out blank paper; but print the 
most telling facts and arguments on tlie back 
of each copy. If the support of leadin<r 
journals has been secured, mention them ; if 
speakers or writers whose ndhesion carries 
special weight with the people have de- 
clared their sentiments, quote them ; if 
Catholic priests or influential Germans have 
promised their assistance . state the fact. 
The Home Protection Petition of Illinois 
illustrates these points. (See p. 27.) 

PETITIONS TO TEMPERANCE PEOPLE. 

These include petitions to those well-mean- 
ing but thoughtless people who patronize 
hotels, restaurants, groceries, drug stores, 



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and physicians that freely and without com- 
punction deal in alcoholic liquors, and whose 
easy-going course is the despair of temper- 
ance doctors, landlords, and store-keepers. 
But because these careless people are total 
abstainers and friends of the cause a peti- 
tion to them «ught to be, but is not, one of 
the most hopeful, as it is one of the most 
important branches of work. 

THE IRONCLAD PLEDGE. 

Oi>r pledge of total abstinence is, after 
all, the greatest of petitions, one which we 
must not fail to present to our audiences and 
to circulate in Sunday-schools and churches, 
everywhere, indeed, that it can be appropri- 
ately introduced. To include the specifica- 
tions ' ' wine, beer, and cider " is of the first 
importance. We build slowly, it is true; 
but we mean to rear the edffice of total 
abstinence and prohibition on sure founda- 
tions. We ought to be loyal to our own 
pledge, prepared, after careful comparison 
of different forms, by the Women's National 
Christian Temperance Union. It is as fol- 
lows: 

" I hereby solemnly promise, God helping me, 
to abstain from all distilled, fermented, and 
malt liquors, including wine and cider, and to 
use all proper means to discourage the use of 
and traffic in the same." 

In our meetings the most effective method 
of presenting this pledge is to place copies 
in the hands of a committee of young ladies, 
who, vfhile a suitable selection is sung by 
the choir, will present it to the audience, 
which remains seated. Ours are meet- 
ings of sober second thought, rather 
than of enthusiasm; and vastly better 
results will be reached by a more quiet 
method of approaching the audience. A 
j^pecial plea for tlie pledge should always 
immediately precede its presentation. 

PETITIONS TO CORPOIIATIGNS. 

Women have done inestimable good by 
circulating petitions to railroad and steam- 
boat corporations not to permit bars nor 
sale of liquor on palace cars, and to make 
total abstinence a condition of employment. 
Tliis last is now becoming general among 
railroad corporations at the West. Our 
unions should urge it in all manufacturing 
towns, all commercial establishments, and 
in corporations generally where lar.oe num- 
bers of men or women are employed. 



DISTRICT OR COUNTY CONVEN- 
TIONS. 

In all branches of our w^ork the watch- 
fires of the temperance convention must 
brightly burn. Below are given T)lans, 
addressed to our vice-presidents, which if 
faithfully carried out will insure a profitable 
meeting : 

PLAN FOR A DISTRICT OR COUNTY CONVEN- 
TION. 

To the Vice-Presidents of the Congressional 

Districts of State W. O. T. XT.: 

Bear Sisters : — By your ofilcial position, 
you are chiefly responsible for the increase 
and efficiency of our local auxiliaries^ No 



union should content itself with merely 
maintaining its organization. We must 
have definite aims and practicable methods. 
How shall these methods be brought to the 
knowledge of the many? There "is no bet- 
ter way than by inducing them to send 
representatives to some large meeting, 
where experienced workers are in attend- 
ance, where all phases of the work can be 
discussed, and where the torch of faith and 
enthusiasm can be lighted at the fireside of 
sympathy and the altar of prayer. We call 
such a meeting a district convention, and 
are anxious to hold as many as possible dur- 
ing the year. 

But the question will be asked : ' ' How 
shall we cause such a convention to come 
to pass?" Permit the following sugges 
tions : 

1. Let the vice-president of each district, 
aided by a local committee of arrangements, 
send out a call and prepare a programme. 

3. To facilitate this work, get from any 
city bookseller a district map. of your state. 
Send to your local editor for names of all 
editors in your district; and to each minister 
in town for a list of all ministers of his de- 
nomination in the same territory; and to, 
each society, of whatever sort, in your town 
— temperance and every other — for names" 
of otficers of similar societies in idl towns 
of the district. When you have obtained 
this list, send your call and programme to 
each of these, asking their help in getting 
the proposed convention before the people 
and enlisting women to attend. Also write 
personall}'' and induce your friends to write 
and urge attendance. 

You will then aud not till then know 
that you have thoroughly advertised your 
convention. 

3. Secure entertainment for an average of 
two from each post-office to which you 
write, though it is feared you will not have 
so many. Have a special committee to go 
to trains and assign places. 

4. Select a pleasant place of meeting, 
centrally located Have it decorated with 
a cross of evergreens, flags, plants, festoons, 
etc. Make abimdant accommodations for 
the secretary, and have a table at the front 
for reporters, who should be especiafly in- 
vited to attend, Ai-range with editors for 
full reports and with city oapers tor special 
telegrams giving news of '-onverii^' .>n. 

5. Have a table with copies of " Om 
Union," "Hints and Helps." "Home 
Protection Manual," * National Leaf- 
lets," Miss Kimball's "S.-S. Helps," 
juvenile temperance papers, Dr. Richard- 
son's "Temperance Text-book," Miss Col- 
man's "Manual," catalosiiies of National 
Temperance Publishing House, etc., which 
can be had by sending to J. N. Stearn^s, 58 
Reade Street, New York. Place all these 
in care of a lady, who shall make sales and 
secure subscribers to " Our Union." 

0. Secure good, rousing Gospel singing, 
without preludes or interludes, not many 
verses at a time, except when signing 
pledge or home-protection petition. Have! 
slips of paper ready for that and plenty of! 
pencils, and ladies to distribute them;' 



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Young ladies should be enlisted to help in 
all this work. 

7. At all evening meetings invite the 
pastors and leading women of the conven- 
tion to occupy the platform. 

8. Let as many leading temperance work- 
ers among the women of the state be pres- 
ent as you feel able to invite. 

This programme requires many brains 
and hands and hearts to carry it out ; but, 
with the blessing of God, it will, if our 
prayers are as earnest as our work must be 
unceasing, result in great good to the cause. 

CALL FOR A TEMPER.VNCE CONVENTION OF 
WOMEN IN THE DISTRICT. 

To all Women's Temperance Societies, of what- 
ever Name; also to Pastors of Churches and 

Christian Women of the Congressional 

District : 

Dear Friends: — The Woman's 

Christian Temperance Union is among 
the best fruits of the temperance cru- 
sade of 1874. It has auxiliaries all 
over the state, and is carrying forward 
active work by increasing and strengthen- 
ing its societies, holding Gospel temperance 
meetings, circulating the pledge, enlisting 
young women, introducing temperance edu- 
cation into Sunday-schools, and, so far as 
possible, all other schools, securing a tem- 
perance column in local papers, circulating 
temperance literature, and developing a 
public sentiment which shall place the tem- 
perance ballot in the hands of women. 
. The central idea of all its work is the en- 
thronement of Christ as Redeemer and Lord 
in the individual heart and of his spirit in 
t:]£ home and in the state. Its motto is: 
" J^'or God and Home and Native Land." 
We believe these objects are dear to all of 
you whom we address. With solemn earn- 
estness, we call upon you to help us by your 
prayers, your influence, your work. 

That we may lay our plans and methods 
before the women of the district (includ- 
ing counties), we hereby call a district 

convention, to be held in , on the 

day of , and we invite 

each woman's temperance society to 
send two delegates, and any woman who 
has the temperance cause at heart to come 
and learn what women are doing in this 
land, and to take home with her such in- 
formation, documents, etc. as shall enable 
her to organize a W. C. T. U. in her own 
locality, if there is not one already; and, if 
there is, to give point and method to its 
operations. 

We also respectfulh-- request each pastor 
in the district to appoint a lady from his 
church who shall come as delegate. 

M'esdames and will be pres- 
ent through the convention. A programme 
of exercises accompanies this call. En- 
tertainment will be furnished to all women 
who come. Please send names at once to Mrs. 

, of , naming time of arrival. 

Yours for God and Home and Native Land, 

Mrs. , Vice-Pres. of District. 

Mrs. , Com. of Arrangements. 

N. B. — Please wear the woman's temper- 
ance badge, a small white ribbon in the but- I 
ton-hole. I 



PROOK AisniE. — Foren oon . 

1. The Convention will be called to order 

at 10 A. M. on the day of , by Mrs. 

, Vice President of the District. 

2. Devotional exercises conducted by 
Mrs. , of . 

3. Appointment of 
tee. 



enrollment commit- 
Report of said committee. 

4. Appointment of committees on busi- 
ness, on organization, nominations, on plan 
of work, and resolutions. 

5. Brief addresses by the president on ob- 
jects of convention, advantages of auxiliary- 
ship, etc 

6. Report of committee on business. 

7. Reports of all local temperance socie- 
ties represented; also from fraternal dele- 
gates. 

8. Prayer. 

Afternoon. 
Convention opens at 2 o'clock. 

1. Devotional exercises, conducted by 
Mrs. , of . 

2. Brief address of welcome, by Mrs. 
, of — '- , and response. 

3. Address by , on "What we 

are trying to do in this state." 

4. Reports of committees. 

5. Brief addresses on petition work, juve- 
nile work, circulation of temperance liter- 
ature, "Our Union,'' ate, etc. 

There will be a question-box. Friends, 
write out your queries and have them 
ready. 

Doxology. 

Evening. 

8 o'clock. Mass meeting, addressed by 
'. Subject: " Home Protection." 

The Home Protection Petition (or the 
Pledge) will be circulated. 

Music. 

Benediction. 

(If practicable, extend this meeting an- 
other day, and have special sessions for 
young women and for the children.) 

TEMPERANCE TABERNACLES. 

A local habitation, a name, and an ear- 
nest, practical woman who could give her 
entire time to the work would quadruple 
the results attained by our W. C. T. (js. 
Compare the work done by those equin])ed 
in this way with that of the general run of 
our societies, and learn once more that God 
has chosen in this world to work by means. 
In many Western towns a great, rough, one- 
story hall is the rallying place of our forces, 
and demonstrates to the enemj' that which 
he hates to think — namely, that we have 
come to stay. The Temperance Tabernacle 
of Atlanta, Illinois is a fine illustration. 
First an enthusiasm was aroused by a series 
of meetings conducted by a reformed man 
Before that had time to subside, several 
clear-headed men of business invited the 
people to take stock in shares of $10 
each in a building which should be the 
temperance headquarters for meetings, 
concerts, etc., and which could be rented 
as a hall to any who would pay a 
fair price. This ten dollars was un- 
derstood to be a gift, the "certificates of 
shares" — like many others supposed to be 



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more yaluable — being mere souvenirs of the 
transaction. A piece of ground was pur- 
chased for a nominal sum; lumber and 
hardware merchants furnished the material 
at cost rates; masons and carpenters, paint- 
ers and glaziers gave their services at half 
price ; women made handsome mottoes and 
decorations; and the place speedily became 
the favorite audience-room of all the coun- 
try round. Add to this a reading-room and 
an office for the secretary of the W. C. T. U., 
and we should have a base of operations 
worthy the magnitude of our endeavor. 
Here our Sunday Gospel-meetings would be 
held, the poor feeling themselves especially 
welcome and at home; here would be the 
great mass meetings of the no-license cam- 
paign, the depository for temperance litera- 
ture and subscription books of "Our Union''; 
here, by frequent sociables and entertain- 
ments, we could help replenish our treasury; 
and here, perhaps, some day, as the rallyiDg 
point of beneficent influence for all, might be 
located the ballot-box, which is the coffin or 
the throne of the saloon. Mr. Frank Hoblit, 
Atlanta, 111., has issued a circular, which he 
v/ill send to those wishing further informa- 
tion concernino: temperance tabernacles, on 
receipt of 3-cent stamp. 



HOW TO MAKE' LOCAL W. C. T. 
MEETINGS INTERESTING. 



U. 



The State W. C. T. Unions of Massachu- 
setts and Iowa have sent out circulars with 
topics to be discussed at meetings of thc'r 
auxiliaries. Ladies are appointed to open the 
subjects by essays or brief addresses, and the 
tracts mentioned are previously distributed 
and read, so that members bi'ing'some knowl- 
edge to the meeting and take still more 
home with them. 

The following is the Massachusetts List: 

1st topic. JANUARY 6tH TO 20TH. 
" Shall we use Beer and Cider ?" 



5. New Cider a Dangerous Beverage le. 

Cider in the Pledge Ic. 

102. The Evils of Beer Legislation le. 

138. Malt Liquors : their Nature and 

Effect 3c. 

75. That Glass of Ale Ic. 

140. Shall We Use Wine and Beer ? Ic. 

96. Our Duty to the Temperance Cause. 3c. 

10c. 
2nt> topic, janttart 20th to pebkuaet 3rd. 
"Alcohol: its Effects upon the Human System." 
Heference. 
The EtTects of Alcohol upon the Hu- 
man System 3c. 

The Voice of Science against Al- 
cohol Ic. 

Alcoholic Liquors 3c. 

Is Alcohol Medicine ? Ic. 

Alcoholics in Medicine Ic. 

Alcohol in the Kitchen Ic. 

Medical Use of Alcohol 3c. 



93. 
113. 

81. 

35. 
154. 
137. 



Is Alcohol Food ? Good. 
Medical Use of Alcohol. 



Good. 



13c. 

5c. 

25c. 



3rd topic, febrijart 3rd to 17th. 
Duty of the Chuich in the Temperance Cause.' 



Reference. 

45. The Working Temperance Church... Ic. 

73. The Church and Temperance Ic. 

146. The Duty of the Christian Church ... Ic. 

150. The Duty of Christians Ic. 

Let the Church Awake Ic. 

32. Drunkenness and Christian Love Ic. 

6c. 

4th topic. FEBRUARY 17TH TO MARCH 3RD. 

" Should Children be taught Temperance, and How ?" 

Reference. 

99. Do not Sin Against the Child .... 2c. 

123. Parental Responsibility Ic. 

48. Temperance and the Childi-en Ic. 

160. Sabbath-schools and Temperance Ic. 



5c. 



LEAFLETS. 



■Juvenile Instruction 

To the Teacher 

Letter to Mothers 

Responsibility of Parents . 



u. 



All the tracts mentioned ahove mav be 
had in large quantities, should you think it 
advisable to scatter at your public meetings 
any one tract treating upon the subject for 
discussion. The price in large quantities is 
about ten pages for one cent. For sale at 
58 Reade Street, iSTew York. 



BEST TEMPERAISTCE PAPERS. 

" When the strongest array of facts, the most 
urgent reasoning possible, persuasion that 
melts into pathos, or ringing sentences that 
leap electric from point to point in the argu- 
ment can all be compassed in a form, and 
struck off by the hundred thousand, and trans- 
mitted in a day to the people of a whole state, 
v/hat voice, even thou ah of syren or saint, can 
hope to compete with its influence ?" — Frmn 
Speech o/Hon. B. Gratz Brown. 

[The following list should be in every 
reading-room, and will furnish just the 
brief, practical selections best adapted to a 
temperance column in the local press] : 

Our Union, Y. M. C. A. Building, Brook- 
lyn, ]Sr. Y. 60 cents per year. 

The Naiional Temperance Advocate, 58 
Reade Street, New York. $1 per year. 

National ProMMtionist (Fortniglitlv). Frank 
M. Bemis, 1504 Pine St. , St. Louis. $1. 00. 

The Morning (Monthly), 23 Park Row, New 
York. 60 cents per year. 

The Temiievaiice Record, 337 Strand, Lon- 
don, Eng. 6.S. 6d 

The League Journal (Weekly), one penny 
per number, 108 Hope Street, Glasgow, 
Scotland, 

The Temperance Banner (for ' Children), 58 
Reade Street, New York. 35 cents. 

Kind Words (Monthly), 30 cents per vear. 

Your Paper " 30 " 

Good Things " 20 " 

Ba^d of Rope " 20 " 
The last four are published by H. W. 

Adams, 23 Park Row, New York. 



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REFEREj^ES. 

For all kinds of books and tracts on Pro- 
hibition, for Miss Colmiin's Manual, Dr. 
Richardson's books, and all scientific works 
on temperance, also for Pledges, Placards, 
Song Books, etc., send to J. N. Stearns, 
58 Reade St., New York. 

For the series of Leaflets (prepared by 
Miss Colman for W. N. C. T. U., and 
suitable for distribution in homes or aud- 
iences) send to 58 Reade Street, New 
York. Price, 130 pages for 10 cts. 

For small temperance handbills (labeled 
"Take One"), to fasten up in public 
places {yevy clieap), send to jNIrs. Emma 
Bourne, 204 Market Street, Newark, N. J. 

For Sunday-school Library Books (tem- 
perance), 58 Reade Street, New York. 

For 25-cent packages of prohibition docu- 
ments, to circulate in audiences or pri- 
vately, also for documents in tJie German lan- 
guage, 58 Reade Street, New York. 

For Miss Willard's "Temperance Bible 
Readins:," "God's Idea of Sin and "Way of 
Pardon" (10 cts.), James H. Earle, 20 
Hawley Street, Boston. 

For Miss Willard's book for girls en- 
titled "Nineteen Beautiful Years " ($1.00), 
Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New- 
York. 

For copies of the "Maine Law" (very 
important to temperance people, as a guide 
to l3etter legislation). Smith & Mayo, Skow- 
hegau, Maine, 

For Rev. T. H. Johnson's Unfermented 
Wine for Sacramental Purposes (awarded 
the Centennial Medal of Honor) send to 
J. N. Stearns, 58 Reade Street, New York. 

In the West, send all orders for literature 
to W\ p. T. U., Room 4, No. 148 Madison 
Street, 'Chicago. 

The following is Tract No. IGG of the 
National Publishing House, 58 Reade St., 
New York, and should be ordered in large 
quantities for the campaign: 

LOCAL OPTION. 

BY BEV. S. M. VERNON, D. D. 

[Tlie Local Option Convention for the State of Penn- 
syh-i'.nia. held in Pittsburgh, May 15f7i, 1877, ap- 
pointed Dr. Vernon to write an Address to the People 
of the State on the subject. Address is here (fiven.'i 

Local Option rests upon the principle of Pro- 
hibition. It Invokes the aid of law in the sup- 
pression of intemperance ; but the law raust be 
the creature of the popular voice in the com- 
munities to be affected by it. It S8eks to 
arouse moral convictions and to develop public ' 
sentiment, till they are strong enough to enact 
and enforce a prohibitory law. It throws the 
responsibility for the continuance or the sup- 
pression of "the deadly tratfic in strong drink 
upon the people, by submitting the question 
of ''license" or "no license" to a vote in 
each county and district. 

The friends of this measure see great wisdom 
in it as a method for suppressing the evils of 
Intemperance. It would be possible to secure tlie 
passaqe of such a law by the Lerfislaiure, when it 
would not be possible to secure the passage of a 
direct prohibitory law. We all know the diffi- 
cultv with which legislative bodies are brought 
to take action favorable to the temperance 



cause. It is one of the most sensitive subjects 
that can be considered, connected as it is Avith 
lari;e finaneial interests and provailing social 
customs. Legislators, who depend upon the 
people for their positions, avoid an ('xpression 
on the subject as far as possible. The Local 
Option Law does not require the Legislature to 
pronounce upon the main question, nor to a.s- 
sume the responsibilities of Prohibition. It is 
simply permissive in its character, allowinir the 
people to delcrniine the question for them- 
selves. This measure is so democratic, so rea- 
sonable in itself, and involves so little respon- 
sibility, it would be hard to tind a pretext for 
refusing it. The Legislature that would by no 
means prohibit the sale of strone: drink m'ight 
feel compelled, by the reasonableness of the 
demand, to allow the people to prohibit it by 
Toi«. 

Under the Local Option law, Prohibition will be 
more effective'y enforced in the localities deternnn- 
inq upon it than it would be under a geytcral pro- 
hibitory law. A law that is not sustained bv 
public sentiment cannot be enforced. The 
sentiment is, therefore, quite as important as 
the law. They are interdependent, so related 
that "united they stand, divided they f all " 
The Local Option law enacts Prohibition by 
the demand of prevailing public sentiment, 
which insures its enforcement. A popular vote 
stimulates discussion. The people must know 
the occasion for it and the .^-rounds on Avhieh 
the disputants base their claims to support. 
Discussion develops and renders more positive 
the needed public sentiment. When this sen- 
timent is strong enough to create a law by the 
vote of the people, and is sustained by tlie 
presence of the men on the rrround who devel- 
oped and fought for it, it will be found stro))g 
enough for the triumphant enforcement of a 
prohibitory law. 

This measure loould most ejffectually 2)rcre7it lohat 
the friends of tanperance have most to fear, public 
ajKithy and indifference. Among good people 
there is a stranire indifference to this cause, 
and great unAvillingTiess to assume the labor 
and expense of agitation and reform. An 
alarminc stupor has settled upon the conscience 
of the Christian public on this subject The 
Local Option law which for three years has 
been before the people of Pennsj'lvania affords 
an opportunity for arousing the conscience of 
the people and securing for the cause that at- 
tention which its merits demand, by calling for 
a vote in every county of the state, once in 
three years, on the subject of Prohibition, thu= 
forcing a discussion of the whole subject at 
least once in every three years, and callinir 
upon every man to inform and express himself 
in regard to it. If we can have a fair oppor- 
tunity, such as this law would afford, for lay- 
ing upon the conscience of the intelligent 
voters of the country our startling: array of 
fact ^ concerning the financial loss, the increase 
of crime, and the vast amount of sufferintr and 
sorrow entailed by the curse of stronc: drink, 
we will soon secure a popular verdict expellinir 
it from the land. The temperance cause has 
a stupendous and overwhelming array of armi- 
ments, to which the enlightened judirmcnt of 
the American people would yield assent if fully 
and fairly presented. There are two difficulties 
in getting it fully before the people. The first 
is that temperance advocates soon become 
weary and discouraged The burdens and em- 
barrassment'? under which they labor are very 
great, and onlv the few endure " faithful to the 
end," unless aided from without. The Local 
Option law forces upon the friends of temper- 
ance once in three years the unwelcome dis- 
cussion, and, if they would, does not permit 
them to bo eilent. Intemperance has nothing to 



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fear so mueli as such a kindling of our watch- 
flres as this. It cannot stand before the awaken- 
ed conscience and intelligence of the country. 
It dreads the light, and must fall before the ar- 
ray of facts which brand it as the sum of all in- 
iquities. We may say that good people ought 
to be self-sustained in so good a work, with a 
tirelesszeal ; but experience teaches that the 
best men are greatly stimulated and helped by 
a special occasion, a pressing issue, and a defi- 
nite aim, such as this law would place before 
the people every three years. The other diffi- 
culty is with the people. They often regard 
temperance workers as " busy-bodies in other 
men's matters," with no sufficient occasion to 
justify their methods, and, therefore, close 
their hs>arts against them. The Local Option 
law would place the whole population in the 
forum once in three years, and make it a duty 
to hear, as well as to speak and act upon the 
issue. The law of the land would thus make 
an occasion, and demand a hearing for the 
cause ; and thus would deliver us from our 
greatest danger, apathy and indifference, by 
streugLhening the position of the advocates of 
temperance and by placing the general public 
in a much better attitude for hearing and con- 
sidering the subject. 

So far as tried, the Local Option laio has heen 
errdneatly successful. The Legislature gave such 
a law to the people of Pennsylvania in 1872. 
The vote of the people, taken in the same year, 
resulted in establishing Prohibition in forty- 
one of the sixtv-six counties of the state The 
result was a reduction of nearly one-half in 
the sales of wholesale and retail liquor dealers 
for the first year. A vigorous effort was made 
at the next session of the Legislature to have 
the law repealed, on the ground that it had 
well-nigh ruined and, if not repealed, must 
utterly destroy the liquor business in the state. 
This plain matter of history is in itself the 
best demonstration of the practical efficiency 
of the law. Ledgers will not lie, and their 
testimony is that a Local Option law in Penn- 
sylvania destroys the liquor business. Our 
best witnesses for this law are the men who 
clamored for its repeal at Harrisburg and the 
'men v/ho fought with true but unavailing 
heroism in its defense. It was clearly foreseen, 
by friend and foe, that, if the law remained, it 
must soon result in Prohibition for the entire 
state, for every Prohibition county was a stand- 
ing illustration of its excellence and a great 
educator of public sentiment, thus augmenting 
the force that had already wrested two-thirds 
of the counties of the state from the accursed 
traffic and making certain its final complete 
triumph in the state. The influence would 
then have spread to other states, till at last 
the nation would have been delivered from 
this its greatest curse. It was the clear fore- 
shadowing of these events, so terrible to the 
one side and so glorious to the other, that 
brought so much money and political influence 
on the one side and so much heroic effort by 
our most gifted sons on the other to the final 
and successful struggle for repeal at Harris- 
burg. 

The right of ProhiMtion hy such a method can- 
not he questioned. The Supreme Court of Penn- 
sylvania decided the Local Option law of that 
state constitutional, which forever settles the 
question, often raised, as to the constitution- 
ality of such a measure. The right to pro- 
hibit any business that is injurious to the wel- 
fare of the community is everywhere conceded. 
It is a,n old maxim in common law, " Salus 
popuK suprema est lex "—the welfare of the 
people is the supreme law. Blackstone says : 
'* Common law requires that a man should itiot 
use his property to the injury of another. The 



consent of the par^ injured is no mitigation 1 
of the offense." in accordance with this is ] 
the long-established law maxim, " Sic utere tuo \ 
ut alieniim non loedas " — enjoy your own prop- j 
erty in such a manner as not to injure that of 1 
another. i 

Upon these principles, so obviously just, all \ 
our laws limiting and regulating the business '] 
of the country are founded. Our laws pro- : 
hibit the publication and sale of obscene liter- | 
ature, the sale of lottery tickets, and gam- I 
bling. They determine in many places the I 
hight and location of our buildings and the ma- ] 
terial of which they are to be constructed ; they ; 
take for highways private lands made sacred j 
to us by the homes and graves of our fathers ; j 
they prevent the storing of explosive materials ; 
in cities, the damming up of water on one's I 
own premises when the health of the commu- \ 
nity is injured by it ; in short, "the welfare of ■ 
the people is the supreme law," to which all j 
statutes are expected to conform. If it is : 
found that the liquor traffic endangers the ; 
peace of society ; that it dethrones reason and \ 
fires the passions of large numbers, turning J 
them loose like wild beasts, to burn, kill, and ;| 
destroy at the caprice of their disordered 1 
minds ; that it is the chief source of the crime, ^ 
pauperism, and destruction by riot which '. 
burden society with oppressive taxes ; that it \ 
wages constant war upon the purity and peace 
of the home, corrupting the sexes in their re- '■ 
lation to each other, trampling upon the rights ; 
of women and children, defiling and sundering .' 
the most sacred relations of life ; that it is the i 
greatest cause of personal sorrow, domestic ; 
unhappiness, public vice, and waste of life and ': 
substance — then society has not only the right, i 
but, if true to itself, is bound to anathema- ; 
tize and exterminate it. My neighbor has no •' 
right to engage in a business which puts the ; 
men of the town into such a frenzy of un- j 
governable passion as renders my life and j 
property insecure. Society owes me protection | 
from such a traffic, by suppressing it. This 
traffic turns madmen into the street, with ran- 
dom pistol-shot or dagger-stroke, to imperil the 
life of every man in it ; to apply the torch and 
kindle conflagration ; to embroil the street, em- 
bolden discontent, and foment riot. If society 
fails, by law, to chain such a monster, it merits 
the evils which it endures for having betrayed 
its most solemn trust. The Local Option law 
proposes to secure the suppression of the traf- 
fic by the most democratic method — calling 
upon the people to determine for themselves 
by vote what security they will throw around 
person and property, what safeguards shall be 
established for public morals, and under what 
educating influences they will have their chil- 
dren brought up. When, in any county, a 
majority of the people believe the liquor busi- 
ness to be injurious to their interests, they 
have a natural right and a right under the Con- 
stitution of the United States to abolish it. 
To deny this right by act of legislature or by 
the refusal of an act — that is, to compel the 
majority to submit to the minority — is oppres- 
sion ; that which from a foreign shore drove 
us into a separate national existence, but on 
our own shores imperils all that liberty has 
achieved. 

The measure here proposed is in perfect harmony 
with moral suasion. Complete victory will never 
be achieved for the temperance cause by any 
one form of effort ; and they but hinder the 
cause who oppose any that are fighting the 
great enemy. All forms of effort are needed 
and should work in harmony. Moral suasion, 
prohibition, local option, the women's crusade 
are atl needed and should not be at war among 
themselves. When any one shows itself strong 



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enough to sweep the field, the others will doubt- 
less retire ; but until then let them work as 
brothers. When the King of Persia could not 
overcome Greece, he employed all his arts to 
maintain war between its principal cities — 
Athens and Sparta— that, when mutually ex- 
hausted, the country might fall an easy prey to 
him. The friends of temperance may well ap- 
prehend a similar device on the part of their 
great enemy. God himself does not attempt to 
govern the world by one form of effort alone. 
He makes his appeal to the conscience; he also 
expresses it in the form of law, with penal- 
ties annexed. He has instituted the Church 
and civil government — both divine institutions 
— for the government of the world. In the 
Jewish Church and state crimes were visited, 
by God's appointment, with death and other 
severe penalties. God's method then and 
now for the suppression of vice is moral sua- 
sion first, and then, quickly following, civil 
law, with its penalties. St. Paul's doctrine in 
Rom, xiv is that the oflaeer of the law, bear- 
ing the sword of execution, is the " minister of 
God "; a minister of God as truly as was Paul 
himself, since he was appointed by God, was 
doing God's work in the way he had appointed 
that it should be done. Those who insist upon 
moral suasion alone dare not apply their argu- 
ments to other questions. Abolish all laws 
against theft, murder, and other crimes ; dis- 
miss the city police ; close the courts ; dis- 
charge the officers of justice ; pull down the 
jails and penitentiaries; and turn over the mor- 
als of the community to the preachers and 
editors — to moral suasion — and society would be 
swept from existence in an explosion of vice 
that Avould shake Heaven and earth. Satan 
himself is transformed into an angel of light 
in this plea for moral suasion only ; and again, 
with the words of the Lord upon his lips, 
tempts the sons of God. It is overlooked by 
many that law itself is a large factor in all true 
moral suasion. For law, human as well as di- 
vine, has always been looked to for an interpre- 
tation of true morality. There must be some 
standard of right and wrong by which moral 
questions are to be decided. Law has in hu- 
man history been that standard. Therefore, 
law is a great educator of public conscience 
and a most important element in moral suasion. 
Legislative halls, constitutional conventions, 
courts of justice, and battle-fields, where great 
principles have been announced in the can- 
non's roar, are among the greatest teachers of 
the world's conscience. The fact that the law 
of the land condemns or permits a certain act 
will have great influence in giving it its place 
in the individual conscience and in determin • 
ing the force of moral suasion in regard to it. 
The fact that the law of the land is against an 
act powerfully re-enforces every moral convic- 
tion against it. There is special force in all 
this, as applied to the Local Option laAv, since 
by this the people are called upon to ascertain 
definitely Avhat their conscientious convictions 
are, to express them in a law of their own crea- 
tion, and to apply them to the enforcement of 
the law by all those measures to which con- 
science naturally impels us. 

We ask for this law as a wise measure in sup- 
pi-essing tfie evils of intemperance, by removimj 
temptation. The temperance reform naturally 
divides itself into two branches, with two 
corresponding lines of effort. In the first place, 
it is concerned with the individual victim of in- 
temperance, and seeks to deliver him from the 
power of inward temptation, and to make of 
him a new man ; in the second place, it is con- 
cerned with society at large, and seeks, by the 
removal of temptation from without, to sup- 
press the evil. The first is chiefly the work of 



moral suasion, the second of law. It is said : 
" If men are determined to drink, they will get 
it in spite of all laws." But the fact is, iViw 
drinking men are " dcternuned^'' to drink. They 
have a thousand times " determined" not to 
drink ; but appetite witliin and temptation 
without have been too stron<r for them. They 
loathe and curse the cup, while they clutch 
and drain it. Reeling and staggering down and 
down, they wildly shriek for some one to de- 
liver them from the monster who has enslaved 
them by capturing their wills, which now no 
longer obey the dictates of conscience and 
reason. If these men reform, they cannot go 
upon the street without encountering the red 
lights, the old deadly fumes, and the long- 
familiar loitering places. With enfeebled mor- 
al nature, diseased body, and shattered nerves, 
is it strange that these men, with such tempta-' 
tions from without, fall again V We ask that 
these poor, unfortunate men shall have a fair 
chance in this, their last effort to regain man- 
hood, by removing temptation out of their way. 

Our hope for the entire suppression of the 
evils of intemperance is in the direction of 
prevention, rather than of cure. We may not 
hope to reform all the drinkers of the present ; 
but, if we can prevent others from forming 
the habit, we shall soon free the country from 
its greatest curse and shame. If we remove 
these places of temptation from the streets, 
and take away the garb of respectability which 
a government license gives to the deadly trathc, 
the oncoming generation will be comparatively 
free from the evils which so oppress us. A 
great army of boys — innocent, bright, buoyant, 
and full of hope ; just from their mothers' 
warm kiss and benediction — is noAV moving 
into the field, taking their first experience in 
contact with the world ; and, unless these 
places of temptation are suppressed, great 
numbers of them will soon be swallowed up 
by this great vortex of ruin, which already has 
had too much of our best blood and brain. We 
ask that the people shall have the chance to say 
by vote whether the business of making 
di'unkards, whose wives and children are to 
be covered with shame and crushed with pov- 
erty ; whether the business which renders'^ life 
and property insecure, piles up taxes, and cor- 
rupts public morals, shall be cariied on in their 
midst ; and we affirm that to deny the peo- 
ple this right is oppression. 

To secure this, let us— 

1. Scatter temperance literature. The over- 
whelming facts and statistics of the temper- 
ance cause, which cannot be detailed in this 
paper, ought to be forced upon the attention of 
the public. Temperance tracts, papers, and 
books must be freely distributed, that tlie peo- 
ple may be informed and aroused. Men of 
means must give money, men of intelligence 
must write, men of executive ability must or- 
ganize and project, and Christian men must 
pray for the cause. We dare not overlook the 
established methods of success, if we mean 
not ignominiously to fail. Knowledge is the 
basis of action, and, if we ^^^sh to control the 
action of the people, we must furnish them 
the knowledge at our disposal. 

2. Organize. Our movements are uncertain, 
unless conducted by organized bodies. Every 
county should have its Local Option'organiza- 
tion, and be in regular correspondence with 
the general or state organization ; that all our 
movements may be in harmony and that one 
may help the other. Unorganized sentiment is 
poiverless, as on unorganized army, and vdll 
accomplish nothing. The evil we oppose has a • 
vast, compact, wealthy organization, tliat can 
throw its whole force in the state upon any 
given point on a week's notice. We may not 



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hope to equal our foe in wealth and organiza- 
tion ; but let not our David go forth to meet 
this Goliath unless he has his carefully-selected 
stones and well-prepared sling. Then, if he 
trusts in the God of battles, he shall succeed. 

3. We must use political influence. It is 
useless to pray and speak, if we are not will- 
ing to vote for the cause of temperance. There 
is temperance sentiment enough in the coun- 
try to control the nominations, if it will go to 
the primaries ; and enough to control the elec- 
tions, if it will vote at the polls. Let every 
voter watch the primaries, question the candi- 
dates of his party, and vote only for those 
who, in the legislature, will vote for the high- 
est interests of the people. The temperance 
sentiment of the country can control this mat- 
ter, if it will, and is, therefore, pariiceps crim- 
inis if it does not. 



AOW TO INTEKEST A STATE OE LOCAL W. 
C.T.U. IN HOME PROTECTION. 

"Write to women most interested in the 
subject, asking them where you can get 
documents setting forth plans and argu- 
ments, and also requesting them to reply 
by letter, which may be read to the society. 
Circulate these documents in your W. C. T. 
XJ. and appoint a day when the subject will be 
discussed. If the discussion develops a strong 
feeling against it, do not urge the matter ; 
but keep it before the thoughts of the mem- 
bers and ask them to consider it with prayer. 
It will not be long before they will adopt 
the measure by an oveTW helming majority. 
When this is done, do not content yourselves 
with a simple declaration of opinion; but 
incorporate the measure into your plans of 
work and instruct your delegates to stand hy 
it in local, state, and national conventions. 



OBJECTIONS TO HOME PROTECTION. 

1. It is thought by some that the Home 
Protection movement can be adopted only 
by those states which work on the Local 
Option line. But this is a mistake. The 
campaign can be twofold, and of this Ohio 
is likely to furnish an example. Mrs. Mary 
A. Woodbridge, of Kavenna, O., president 
of its W. C. T. U., will gladly give infor- 
mation on this point to any who desire it. 

2. It is said that Local Option is an incon- 
sistency, for no community would ever 
place a bill against stealing before the peo- 
ple for their option, and the liquor traffic is 
a crime as bad as stealing. But no law 
was ever enacted against stealing, except as 
the result of an option (a free choice) in the 
legislatures of state and nation. It was 
voted upon, and men voted as they chose. 
The immense public sentiment in favor of 
such a law caused the vote to be unan- 
imous, and this will some day be the case 
with prohibitory law. Meanwhile, in states 
where tlxe sentiment would not yet give us 
a prohibitory law (which we could only get 
by a local option in the locality known as 
the " Halls of Legislation "), let us not say 



to less conspicuous places — municipalities, 
for instance — that because the whole state 
will not they may not vote the legalized 
dram-shop out of their boundaries. Since 
in a representative government we can pass 
no law except by leaving it open to the 
chances of a ''local option," and since this 
same option is the only possible method by 
which we can delegate to localities under a 
government "of the people, by the people," 
power to enact in the territory nearest them 
and in which they are most interested a 
prohibitory law, therefore, local option is a 
necessity 2^r se and the surest forerunner of 
that more general form of Local Option 
popularly known as Prohibition. (See fur- 
ther on p. 33, "Local Option.") 

4. It is said that men would sooner give 
us prohibition than the temperance ballot. 
The experience of Illinois refutes this argu- 
ment. (See p. 8.) There is an element of 
justice in our request for power to over- 
throw the rum-shop to which men respond 
as to no other plea we have ever made 
along this line. 

5. It is said that by taking up this work 
our W. C. T. Unions ally themselves with 
the woman suffrage movement, largely con- 
ducted in the past by those who did not 
believe in Orthodox Christianity. But,* if 
the movement for the temperance ballot is 
right, then whoever cares for the right ought 
to help ally it with Christ's Church; and 
when an army of temperance women in 
nine states have done this it becomes a 
movement of the Church. 

6. " But, if the National W. C. T. U. does 
not endorse a plan of work, neither should 
the state unions do so," is the last objec- 
tion. Let it be remembered, however, that 
the "JSTational" has twice endorsed the 
movement for woman's temperance ballot, 
and that, since its representation takes color 
from the locality in which its annual meet- 
ing is held, its utterances are necessarily 
sometimes inconsistent with each other, 
while no state which has once endorsed the 
movement has ever retreated from its ad- 
vance position. It seems fair that in so 
extended an organization each state should 
be free to magnify certain methods and to 
add new plans, as its local circumstances 
render these helpful. But that no state 
should hare a,ny method of work urged upon 
it hy the Nationol Union until it has, a.s a 
btate, endorsed that metliod, seems equally fair. 
Hence, while the states which believe in 
Home Protection have sought each year to 
have a resolution in its favor, and have each 
year gained seme advance (by resolution at 
Cincinnati and Chicago, by petition at 
Kewark, and by opening the columns of 
Our Lnion to the subject at Baltimore), they 
have never nsked that it be made a part of 
the Natiovdl Plan of Work, and will not 
until a majority of the states have adopted 
the measure. 



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[Editors Please Publish and Temperance PsopU Circulate,'] 



HOME PEOTECTIOISr PETITION. 



ILLINOIS W. C. T. U. 



[Among the many prominent religious newspapers which have editorially endorsed this Petition aro ri; 
following: Christian Union, Independent, and Witness, NeAv York; Northwestern Christian Advocate, Advnnn 
Interior, Standard, and Alliance, Chicago ; The Golden Rule and Zion's Herald, Boston.] 

To be Returned to , at , by the Day of — , WitJiout Fail. 



[N. B.— This Petition will be presented at the State Capital at the earliest possible dale in Hm" 

session of the Legislature, which convenes on the day of , 187 — , by the foUowiiii; 

Committee : ^ Any number of copies will be sent to any address, if desired ; but it is 

also earnestly requested that persons interested in utilizing the influence of woman against the 
legalized traffic in strong drink will have printed or written copies of the Petition made and circu- 
lated from house to house. Let them also be sent to editors, ministers, Sunday-school and public; 
school teachers, and to all Eeforni Clubs and other temperance societies. All ministers and tem- 
perance speakers are requested to present the Petition to their audiences, after a sermon, address, 
or exhortation on the subject of which it treats. The following method of securing signatures 
in audiences is recommended : Previous to opening the meeting, place in each pew a narrow 
strip of paper, with the words " Names of Men over 21 " written across the top, and '* Names of 
Women over 21 " half way down the strip. After reading the Petition, at the close of the meet- 
ing, call attention to these papers and constitute the gentleman or lady sitting in the end of 
each pew or seat nearest the aisle a committee of one to see that all in that seat have the oppor- 
tunity to sign the slip of paper. Let one person be in attendance in each aisle with pencils to 
lend, and let this person gather up the slips as soon as signed. These autographs are to be sent 
to headquarters, to be pasted upon the Petition. While the signing proceeds, such hymns as 
"America" or Miss Lathbury's "Home Protection Hymn " (see p. 32) may be sung by the choir. 
When the largest number of signatures possible has been obtained, send the list of autograjvh sig- 
natures, stating plainly where they were obtained and payicg postage in full, to , 

at Headquarters State Vv". C. T. U., in . Write on one side only, giving name of 

town and county on each list of names. Paste more paper on the Petition as required. Names 
may be signed in pencil, and autographs only are desired.] 

To THE Senate and House of Representatites op the State of Illinois: 

Whei-eas, In these years of temperance work the argument of defeat in our contcst 
witli the saloons has taught us that our efforts are merely palliative of a disease in tlie 
body politic, which can never be cured until law and moral suasion go hand in hand in 
our beloved state ; and 

Whereas, The instincts of self -protection and of apprehension for the safety of her 
children, her tempted loved ones, and her home render woman the natural enemy of the 
saloons; Therefore, your petitioners, men and women of the State of IBinois, having at 
heart the protection of our homes from their worsj; enemy, the legalized traffic in strong 
drink, do hereby most earnestly pray your honorable body that, by suitable legislation, it 
maybe provided that in the State of Illinois the question of licensing at anytime, in 
any locality, the sale of any and all intoxicating drinks shall be submitted to and deter 
mined by ballot, in which women of lawful age shall be privileged to take pait, in the 
same manner as men, when voting on the question of license. 



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BACK OF THE PETITION. 



' [Please have this Printed in Local Paper s."] 

Among the many prominent religious newspapers wMcli have editorially endorsed 
this Petition are the following : Christian Union, Independent, and Witness, Kew York ; 
Northwestern Christian Advocate, Advance, Interior, Standard, and Alliance, Chicago ; The 
Golden Rule, and Zfion's Herald, Boston. 

In a recent "Monday Lecture," Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, spoke thus: 
" There stands a noble statehouse in the cornfields near Springfield, Illinois, and Lincoln's 
grave lies under its shadow. Above his grave a legislature will be petitioned this winter b};- 
ladies of Illinois to give women of legal age the right to vote in cases of local option under tem- 
perance laws. ... In New Hampshire the line has already been broken as to the exclusion 
of women from participation in the settlement of questions closely touching the home. Let it 
be noticed that New Hampshire, a conservative New England state, has just given to women 
the right to vote on all questions concerning the school laws. I am not a woman suffragist. 
Do not applaud this platform under the mistaken idea that I am a defender of extreme 
positions as to woman's rights. I am meditating on that theme. But this I dare say, that 
one of the fragments of self-protection for women— namely, a right to vote, concerning 
temperance laws, when the question of local option is up — I am willing to defend, and 
intend to defend, to the end of the chapter. Great natural justice is on the side of such a 
demand. Woman's interests are among the chief ones concerned ; and as to family divisions, why, 
they come largely from temperance laxness. Woman surely has political intelligence enough 
to understand the difference between license and no license, especially when she has suf- i 
fered under a lax execution of the temperance laws. The difference is so plain between local 
freedom and no local freedom to sell liquor that woman without any great participation in 
the turmoil of politics might be expected to have an intelligent vote on this s abject. I 
know that many cultivated and refined women say they do not want women to vote, because 
they do not want to increase the amount of ignorant suffrage. Well, I respect the intelli- 
gence and the refinement of the ladies who make such remarks ; but I believe that on most 
moral questions woman is likely to be more intelligent and certainly more disinterested than 
man. I am told by many of the best authorities that women who are opposed to female suffrage 
at large are usually in favor of this modified measure. I am assured that a majority of the 
thoughtful, cultivated women of the United States, or certainly of the Northern states, can be 
expected to favor this demand for a vote to be given to women in questions of local option, 
concerning temperance laws. If a majority of women want such a vote. Heaven grant their 
desire ! Women would be united on this topic. Woman's vote would be to city vices depending 
on intemperance what the lightning is to. the oak. God send us that lightning ! " [Applause.] 



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I 



FORM OF HOME PROTECTION BILLS. 



In Illinois the Legislature was asked to adopt a resolution providing for an amendment 
:o the constitution authorizing women to vote on temperance questions, as this wa. 
leemedhy many the only method practicable under the laws of that state. Meanwhile, for 
Imore immediate use the Hinds Bill was offered, providing for the signatures of women, in- 
stead of their votes. It reads as follows : 



31sT Assembly. 



HOUSE— No. 469. May, 1879. 



1. Introduced by Mr. Hinds, February 12th, 1879, titie read and referred to Committee on 

2. Kep^oSback with amendments, passage recommended as amended, and ordered to first 

reading;, March 21st. , ,. 

q First readino- March 26th, and ordered to second readmg. 
I: Scond readfng Say 9th, amended and ordered engrossed for a thu'd readmg. 
5. Printed as amended. 

March 30th, 1874. , . .^ ^ j , ,, 

Section 1 Be it ejiacted by the people of the State of lUinois, represented in the Qeueral Assembly 

6 tion hv netition of a maiority of the registered residents, males and temaies, oi inc town 

7 who are 21 years of age, where the county is under township organization ; and, if not under 

81 same fines -^ penalties shaH be imposed a^bysa,ai^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ 

8 thereto. 



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HISTOBY OF THE HOME PROTECTION PETITION 

IN ILLINOIS. 

PKEPARED BY MRS, M. L. WELLS. 

{Vice-President of 12th Cong'l Dist., Springfield, III. 

[As a matter of history and for future comparison 
with other campaigns, the following is copied :j 

Octoher 10th, 1878.— The Annual Meeting of 
the Illinois Woman's Christian Temperance 
Union, at Monmouth, ordered the petition to 
be prepared ; which was accordingly done toy 
Miss Willard, assisted toy W. P. Black, an at- 
torney at law, of Chicago. 

December Wi. — The draft prepared was ac- 
cepted toy the Executive Committee of the 
State Union. 

December IWi. — The first presentation was 
made toy Miss Willard, at Greneseo ; but no 
general effort was made until January. 

January Ist,^ 1879,— Less than 1,000 names 
had toeen ototained. 

March Xat. — The petitions were called in for 
presentation, the entire canvass having occu- 
pied but atoout two months or nine weeks. The 
signatures were pasted on strong white muslin, 
eighteen inches v/ide, bound with red ritotoon 
on one edge and tolue on the other. The entire 
supervision of this (the first) petition and put- 
ting it together were the weighty task of Miss 
Anna Gordon, Miss Willard's private secretary, 
and the work was admiratoly done. Prominent 
touslness men of Chicago, chief of whom was 
E. J. Fowler, Esq., furnished the funds for 
postage, printing, and necessaries. 

March Aih {Evening). — There was a reception 
in the Governor's Rooms at the Capital and 
iiddresses toy a numtoer of ladies. 

March 5th (Evening). — There was a mass 
meeting in the P.epresentatives' Chamber, pre- 
viously granted for that purpose. The petition 
was gracefully festooned around the chamber, 
and stirring addresses were delivered by ladies 
of the Presentation Committee, and by Mrs. 
Foster, the lady lawyer of Clinton, Iowa, who 
was present toy invitation of the ladies and 
presented the legal aspects of the case. The 
Presentation Committee were: Miss Frances E. 
Willard, president of W. C. T. U. of Illinois ; 
Mrs. T. B. Carse, president of Chicago W. C. 
T. U. ; Mrs. L. A. Hagans, Mrs. Willis A. 
Barnes, Mrs. C. H. Case, Mrs. D. J. True, all 
of Chicago ; Mrs. Prof. Fry and Mrs. A. R. 
Riggs, of Bloomington ; Mrs. C. H. St. John, 
of Eureka ; Mrs. M. H. Villars, of Pana ; Miss 
Mary A. West, of Galestourg; Mrs. E, W. Kirk- 
patrick, of Monmouth ; Mrs. H. A. Calkins and 
Mrs. E. G. Hitoben, of Peoria ; Mrs. M. L. Wells 
and Mrs. R. Beach, of Springfield ; and Miss 
Anna Gordon, of Massachusetts (Mrs. M. 
Wait, of Galesburg, former Pres't State W. C. 
T. U. , and Miss Kate Ross, of Abingdon, also 
members, were unable to be present). 

March 6th. — Presentation . of the petition to 
the House of Representatives, with an address 
by Judge Hinds, of Stephenson County. Three 
of the ladies— Miss Willard, Mrs. Foster, and 
Mrs. St. John — by invitation of the House, on 
the motion of Hon. Sol. Hopkins, then ad- 
dressed the House— this being the firsPfc time a 
lady had ever spoken in an open session of the 
Illinois Legislature. The number of signatures 
to the petition was 110,000, of men over twen- 
ty-one and women over eighteen years of age, 
about half of these toeing voters. 

April 9th (Evening).— Muss meeting in the 
Senate Chamtoer, with supplemental petition 
exhibited in like manner as above, which peti- 
tion contained at least 70,000 additional names, 
all secured in less than four weeks. The put- 



ting together of this last petition was the woni 
of the women of Springfield, under super-vision 
of Miss Barnett. 

April lO^A,— Presentation in the Senate by 
Senator Taliaiero. An effectual objection be- 
ing made to the ladies speaking in open ses- 
sion, a motion for a recess of thirty minutes 
prevailed, and Miss Willard occupied the time 
in speaking on the objects of the petition. 
Twenty-four senators voted for the recess and 
nineteen against it. Three senators left the 
chamber, returning at the close of the recess. 

The presentation committee was the same 
as before, with the addition of the follow- 
ing persons: Mrs. H. A. Allyn, of Spring- 
field; Mrs. R Greenlee, Mrs. M, A. Cum- 
mings, Mrs. J. B. Hobbs, and Miss Lucia 
Kimball, of Chicago; Mrs. G. H. Read, of 
Bloomington; Mrs. H. W. Harwood and 
Mrs. H. C. Cullom, of Joliet; Mrs. S. B. 
Mooney, of Pana; Mrs. S. M. I. Henry, of 
Rockford; and Mrs. M. A. Taliafero, of 
Keithsburg. 

HOME PROTECTION IN MASSACHUSETTS. 

In Massachusetts the W. C. T. U. pre- 
sented the follov/ing excellent form of a 
bill to the Legislature of 1879, which was 
passed in the Senate, but tabled in the 
House : 

"The vote shall be by ballot; and ballots 
shall be ' Yes ' or ' No,' in answer to the ques- 
tion : ' Shall the mayor and alderman (or 
selectmen) be authorized to grant licenses for 
the sale of intoxicating liquors in this city (or 
town) ?' 

''Any woman possessing the other qualifica- 
tions for voting now established by law may 
apply to one of the assessors of the city or 
town in which she has residence, to be assessed 
for a poll-tax, and shall be so assessed ; and 
upon payment thereof she may apply to the 
proper board of registration of voters in such 
city or town, not later than the Saturday pre- 
ceding such day of voting ; and it shall be the 
duty of such board, upon being satisfied that 
she possesses the other qualifications required 
of voters, to place her name on the voting list 
for use at such meetings ; and she shall con- 
tinue to be so assessed each year, until she 
shall otherwise request in writing ; and so long 
as such qualifications continue to exist she 
shall have at all meetings held under this act 
all the rights of a legally-qualified voter. 

"All licenses granted under the provisions 
of this act, and of the act of which this is an 
amendment, shall contain, in addition to the 
name of the licensee, the name of the owner of 
the premises upon which the business is to be 
carried on. The clerk of each city and town 
shall keep a complete record of all licenses, 
with their bondsmen, and of the owners of the 
premises upon which the business is to be car- 
ried on, in each case, which record shall at all 
times toe open to putolic inspection." 



THE HINDS BILL. 



A temperance ballot for women requir- 
ing a constitutional amendment, a bill was 
drawn (at the request of the ladies) by J. C. 
Wells, an attorney, of Springfield, provid- 
ing that women over 21 may be registered, 
the same as voters, and that before a saloon- 
keeper can open a saloon he must be able 
to prove to the municipal authorities that 
he has secured the signatures of a majority 



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of both men and women over 31 years of 
age. The hill was iutrotluced by Judge 
Hinds and culled by his name, and referred 
to License Committee Feb. 12th, reached a 
third reading May 30th, with some amend- 
ments, Chieliy verbal, and was put on its 
passage. The ladies feel under obligations 
to many of the members of both houses for 
their'courteous, kindly words and acts; but 
especially to Judge Hinds, who battled for 
us so grandly from first to last, and Mr. 
Peters, w^ho insisted on the linal vote. The 
bill was lost by a vote of tifty-three to 
lifty-five. 

Those voting for the bill are as follows : 
Messrs. Abraham, Allen, of Warren ; Bolt, 
Bowen, Bisbee, Black, Brigham, Byers, Church- 
hill, Core, Crookei-, Crostiiwait, Davis, Dysart, 
Elliott, Ewing, Foy, Gray. Gross, Hall, of Gal- 
latin ; Hallaciay, Harts, Hinds, lughara, Jack- 
son, Johnson, Keniston, Latimer, Lyon, McFie, 
Moss, Neal, Otman, Peters, Price, Rauuey, 
Reavill, Robinson, of Jackson ; Robison, of 
Fulton ; Ryan, Savage, Scott, Secrest, Shaw, 
Simonson, Sloan, Srnith, Stevens, Thomason, 
Tice, Trammell, Tyler, Mr. Speaker. Teas, 53. 

Those voting against the bill are as follows : 
Messrs. Ban-y, Bower, Brumback, Buck, Cock- 
le, Collins, Day, Durfee, Ehrhardt, Eldredge, 
English, Granger, Hall, of Tazewell; Hamil- 
ton, Hammond, Herrington, Hinkley, Holden, 
Hopkins, Jennings, Jones, of Christian ; Jones, 
of Washington ; Kouka, Lovell, Marston, Ma- 
son, McCreery, Mielbeck, Mock, Murray, Nich- 
ols, Orendorf, Pearson, Pleasants, Powell, 
Prickett, Provart, Reaburn, Rogei-s, Scarlett, 
Seiter, Sexton, Snigg, Struckmaia, Taylor, of 
Cook ; Thomas, Thomson, of Will ; Truesdell, 
Vasey, Veile, Walsh. Weber, Wentworth, Wil- 
son, Zimmerman. Nays, 55. 

Those absent or not voting, many of whom 
were supposed to be friends, were: Messrs. 
Allen, of Whiteside ; Bridges, Burt, Butter- 
worth, Carter, of Adams ; Carter, of Johnson ; 
Chase, Clark, Cremer, Dewey, Ficklin, Fos- 
beuder, Frew, Graham, Green, Gregg, Layman, 
Lewis, Matthews, McBride, McKinlay, Meyer, 
Miles, Mileham, Mitchell, Morrison, Neff, 
O'Malley, Pratt, Richey, Samuel, Sherman, 
Snyder, Spencer, Tavlor, of Winnebago; 
Thomson, of Cook ; Tracey, Wall, \^arren, 
Wheeler, Wightman, Wrio:ht, of Boone ; 
Wright, of Dupage ; Zink.— 44. 

[Illinois temperance people please copy 
these names for reference, and 'secure their 
publication in local papers throughout the 
state.] 

ISToTE.— The Ohio Woman's Christian 
Temperance Union is actively circulating 
the following : 

TWELVE REASONS FOR WOMAN'S TEMPERANCE 
BALLOT. 

BY JOSEPH COOK. 

1. It is more difficult for a woman to obtain 
a livelihood alone than for a roan to do so, and 
so she has a deeper interest than a man in the 
home. 

2. Woman's love of home is the natural 
antagonist of the enemies of the home, and 
among these perhaps the most mischievous is 
Intemperance. 



3 Woman is less intemperate than man, 
and so could be trusted to give a purer vote on 
temperance laws. 

4. Woman is less complicated with party in- cry and activity of those who use It 



trigue and political ambition, with desire for 
ofhce and with business at large, and so would 
be more fiee than men to give a vote on the 
merits of the case. 

5. A temperance vote by women would be 
a test by which the theory of woman's sulTrage 
could be tried on a restricted scale, without 
danger. 

6. It would not be an entering wedge, but 
only an appeal to experience; audthe latter, as 
it should reveal i^ood or bad tendencies in the 
theory, would decide the result. 

7. Rumsellers oppose the temperance vote 
of women. I suppose that nothing has ever 
stirred the rumsellers of Chicago, St. Louis, 
and Cincinnati quite so much as this movement 
to i^ive the temi)erauce vote to the women If 
you will show me Avhat rumsellers do noi want, 
I will show you what I want. 

8. The temperance vote is asked for by 
women in overwhelming numbers, moat oi 
whom are not female sufCrau:ists. 

9. Such a change as woman's temperance 
ballot asks for is not connected with high 
theories as to natural rights to suffrage, nor as 
to property qualifications. 

10. Under English law, women paying taxes 
can vote in municipal and town elections, and 
this wider privilege, which has v/orked well, 
includes the narrower one of woman's temper- 
ance vote. 

11. In questions where the decision is so 
easy as that between license and no license 
woman's vote would not often be unintelligent, 
and so would not add to the mass of the igno- 
rant suffrage. 

12. In questions so important to the home 
as those relating to temperance laws woman's 
vote would not often be unused, and so would 
not add essentially to the dangers of absentee- 
ism at the polls and of unexercised suffrage. 

In proof of Mr. Cook's seventh reason, 
read the following from the liquor organ of 
Cincinnati : 

Local Option and Woman Supfrage. — 
''The New Crusade" is what the vigorous 
temperance movement breaking out all over 
the land is called. That there is unusual mo- 
tion, energy, and determination in the matter 
of opposition to the " liquor traffic" is too ap- 
parent to escape the observation of the most 
obtuse. It is in the air everywhere. Not a 
breeze from any quarter but is sonorous with 
the notes of preparation and the voices of the 
workers. The women furnish most of the ag- 
itating force, and it is very eft'ective. *' The 
strongholds of sin" must prepare for a no or- 
dinary struggle, or fall with a crash that will 
make every distillery, brewery, and wine-press 
in the country tremble. The two main points 
sought to be accomplished by legislation are 
local option, and woman suffrage at such option 
elections. Give the women the ballot on such 
occasions, allow them to have a voice in the 
question whether saloons and beer or wine- 
rooms where intoxicating drinks are sold may 
or may not exist, and not a drop could a 
thirsty soul get anywhere in the state. There 
is an earnestness in "The New Crusade" we 
have never before witnessed ; and if there are 
any who think there is not going to be much of 
a shower, after all, they will fool themselves as 
completely as did the scoffers of Noah and his 
Ark. The signs of the coming storm are too 
apparent for any observing mind to mistake 
their meaning. ** Local option and woman 
suffrage " will be the inspiring motto of the 
New Crusaders, and the political arena will 
will be made livelv with the shouts of bal tle- 

And It 



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mU worry the political parties and the small 
politicians more than any question they have 
for some time had to deal with. Shall we say 
there is fun or death ahesid^— Cincinnati En- 
quirer. 

HOME PROTECTIOlSr HYMN. 

BT MARY A. LATHBURT. 

Tune, "Arise and Shine,'" No. 74 in Qospel Hymns No. 2. 

Oh ! trust ye in the Lord forever ! 

Strong is His arm and wide His love ; 
He keepeth truth, He f aileth never, 

Though earth and sea and Heaven remove. 
Chorus : 

Sing to the Lord ! He goes before us. 

His strength is ours, His truth shall stand 
Till East and West shall join the chorus : 
" For God and Home and Native Land !" 

B^ strong, O men, who bear in battle 
For us the banner and the shield ; 

For strong to conquer as to suffer 
Is He who leads you in the field. 

Chorus : 

Lift up your eyes, O women, weeping 
Beside your dead ! The dawning day 

Has rent the seal of death forever, 
And angels roll the stone away ! 

Chorus : 

Room for the Right ! Make room before us 
For Truth and Righteousness to stand ; 

And plant the holy banner o'er us, 

"For God and Home and Native Land !" 

Chorus : 
Newark, N. J., Easter, 1879. 



PROHIBITION LITERATURE. 

Prohibition Does Prohibit. J. N. Stearns. 

48. 10 cts. 
Suppression of the Liquor Traffic, Rev. H. D. 

Kitchell, D.D 48. 10 cts. 

The Throne of Iniquity. Rev. Albert Barnes, 

D.D... 22. 5 cts. 

Fruits of the Liquor Traffic. Sumner Stebbins, 

M.D 24. 5 cts. 

Maine Law Vindicated. Hon. Woodbury 

Davis 8. $6 per 1,000. 

Review of Ex-Governor Andrew on License. 

Rev. Wm. M. Thayer 8. $6 per 1,000. 

Indictment of the Rum Traffic. By Rev. W. W. 

Hicks 4. S3 per 1,000. 

The Fruits of License. Rev. "William M. 

Thayer 4. $3 per 1,000. 

The Ballot for Temperance. Rev. James B. 

Dunn 4. $3 per ] ,000. 

Natural and Reserved Rights. Rev. Joseph 

Cummings, D.D 4. $3 per 1,000. 



Evils of License. Rev. Wm. M. Thayer. 

4. $3 per 1,000. 
Rum and Taxation under License. Rev. Wm. 

M. Thayer 4. |3 per 1,000. 

Why We Oppose the Traffic. Rev. A. Suther- 
land 4. $3 per 1,000. 

The Rumseller a Robber. Rev. Luther* Keene. 

8. $6 per 100. 
Accountableness for Evils of Intemperance. 

Rev. J. C.Foster 8. $6 per 100. 

The Evils of Beer Legislation. Rev. James B. 

I>unn 8. $6 per 100. 

What it all Costs. Ovid Miner, Esq. 

4. $3 per 100. 
Practical Workings of Prohibition. Hon. 

Robert C. Pitman 8. $6 per 100. 

National Legislation, A. M. Powell, Esq. 

4. $3 per 100. 
The Sabbath and Beer Question. Rev. Geo. L. 

Taylor 4. $3 per 100. 

Moral and Legal Suasion. Hon. Robert C, 

Pitman 4. $3 per 100. 

The Results of Prohibition. A. M. Powell, 

Esq 4. $3 per 100. 

Law as an Educator. Rev. Wm. M. Thajer. 

4. $3 per 100. 
The Relations of Drunkenness to Crime. Elisha 

Harris, M.D 8. $6 per 100. 

Constitutionality and Duty of Prohibition. 

Rev. H. M. Scudder 4. $3 per 100. 

Governor of Massachusetts against License. 

Hon. T. Talbot 4. $3 per 100. 

The Street of HeU. Rev. R. T. Cross. 

4. $3 per 100. 
Second Declaration of Independence. Rev. A. 

W. Corey 4. $3 per 100. 

Constitutional Amendment on the Manufacture 

and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors. Hon H. 

W. Blair 43. 10 cts each. 

It is a storehouse of fact, argument, and 
statistics, and should be in the hands of every 
lecturer, clergyman, student, and every one 
who is interested in temperance. Sent by mail, 
postpaid, on receipt of price. 

Address J, N, Stearns, Publishing Aqent, 
58 Reade Street, New York, 

Alcohol and the State. A Discussion of 
the Problem of Law as Applied to the Liquor 
Traffic. By Robert C. Pitman, LL. D., As- 
sociate Judge of Superior Court of Massa- 
chusettes. 12mo, 406 pages $1 50 

Prohibitionist's Text - Book, The. 12rao, 
312 pages. Paper, 50 cents . Cloth $1 00 

Packet op Prohibition Docijments $0 25 

Comprising tracts on prohibition and the 
suppression of the liquor traffic, making 220 
pages. 

Local Option.— Special. Per 1,000 $8 00 

Also Tracts in the German language. 



Plan of Work for a W. C. T. U. 



1. Wherever possible, a Gospel Temperance Meeting is to be held on Sabbath after- 
noon at an hour that does not conflict with church services, and in a place to which the 
drinking class will come. Here the iron-clad temperance pledge ("including wine, beer, 
and cider ") mu§t be presented and the power of Christ to save illustrated and enforced 
in Bible Readings, Addresses, and Songs. A Union Temperance Prayer Meeting of all 
the churches should be held monthly. 

2. The vice-president of each church is responsible to secure members (active and 
honorary) in her own church; also subscribers to "Our Union"; to introduce the plans of 
the S. S. Committee; and to see that the subject of temperance and the women's work are 
brought before the church or the church prayer-meeting at least once a month. She is 
also to use her influence for the substitution of grape juice for wine at the sacramental 
service. « 

3. A column should be secured in each local paper, and material, selected and orig- 
inal, prepared by ladies appointed for this purpose. The column should be headed 
" Department of the W. C. T. U.," and its list of officers, with time and place of meet- 
ing and earnest invitation to women to co-operate in the temperance work, should be 
published in every issue. 

4. Efforts should be made to enlist the young ladies. They may constitute a com- 
mittee to furnish and conduct a temperance reading-room, to establish fountains and 
other water-drinking places "for man and beast," to circulate temperance literature, to 
provide a course of lectures, and to organize a Juvenile Temperance Union, to introduce 
Miss Colman's and Dr. Richardson's books into the public schools; also to keep autograph 
pledge-books on their tables and secure signatures. 

5. A special committee on finance should be appointed to add to the resources of the 
treasury by assessments in the churches, finance cards circulated from house to house 
pledging a specified sum quarterly, "little brown jug" collection boxes, festivals, 
concerts, temperance colloquies, loan exhibitions, and other methods. 

MISCELLANEOUS SUGGESTIONS. 

Miss Willard's "Hints and Helps in our W6rk" (2d ed.) can be had by sending 25 
cents to " W. C. T. U., Room 4, No. 148 Madison Street, Chicago." 

For all desired information about " Our Union," address Mrs, C. C. Alford, Y, M. C. 
A. Building, Brooklyn. For Dr. Richardson's Temperance Lesson Book, Miss Colman's 
Juvenile Temperance Manual, Sunday-school papers, temperance books, etc. send to J, 
N, Stearns, No, 58 Reade Street, New York, or to W, C. T. U,, Room 4, No. 148 Madison 
Street, Chicago, Illinois. For leaflets and information on circulation of literature, 
address Miss Julia Cdlman, No. 443 Clermont Avenue, Brooklyn. On Sunday-school 
Temperance Work, separate Juvenile Societies,, and Temperance in Public Schools 
address Miss Lucia Kimball, No. 644 Monroe Street, Chicago. On unfermented wine — 
how to obtain it, etc.— Mrs. T. B. Carse, President Chicago W, C. T. U., 148 Madison 
Street. For Forms of Constitutions, Suggestions for the Illinois Work, etc. address Miss 
Frances E. Willard, No. 148 Madison Street, Chicago, 111. In all cases please enclose 
stamp for return postage. 

" Roberts' Rules of Order " is our authority on parliamentary usage. 

The Badge now adopted by the National aS well as State and Local Unions is the 
knot of wjiite ribbon, which we ought all to wear. Let us not neglect any of these out- 
ward means of bringing our widely scattered workers into unity of thought and plan; 
but, above all, let us seek to be guided by the spirit which is " first pure, then peaceable, 
gentle and easy to be entreated," full of charity and faith. 

Dear Sisters, do not let it be forgotten that earnest, hard work alone gives proof of 
Hring faith. Our Unions will no more win trophies for Christ on prayer without work 
than a bird will soar to heaven upon one wing. Our Master is him who "went about 
doing good." "Lo, I am with you always " is his promise. Trusting in this, let us walk 
gently forward, " without haste, without rest." 



*' The government, shall he upon His shoulder/' 

—Isaiah ix, 7. 

'^ Woe unto him that justifieth the wicked for a 
reward/' 



—Isaiah v, 23. 



^^ There is neither male nor female; hut ye are all 
one in Christ Jesus/' 



—Paul. 



''For if this counsel or this work he of men, it will 
come to naught; hut if it he of God^ ye cannot overthrow 

it, lest haply ye he found even to fight against God," 

—Gamaliel. 

''Philanthropy and politics, now flowing apart, will 
unite in one stream when philanthropists hecome con- 
scious of power to reach the sources of crime and 
misery, and when statesmen understand that their 
functions are assigned to them for none hut a philan^ 
thropic end/' 



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